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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">inform</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Информатика</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Informatics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1816-0301</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2617-6963</issn><publisher><publisher-name>UIIP NASB</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">inform-438</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ОБРАБОТКА СИГНАЛОВ, ИЗОБРАЖЕНИЙ, РЕЧИ, ТЕКСТА И РАСПОЗНАВАНИЕ ОБРАЗОВ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>SIGNAL, IMAGE, SPEECH, TEXT PROCESSING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Уточнение индекса SSIM структурного сходства изображений</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Enhancement of the structural similarity index SSIM</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Старовойтов</surname><given-names>В. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Starovoitov</surname><given-names>V. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Старовойтов Валерий Васильевич – доктор технических наук, профессор, главный научный сотрудник.</p><p>Ул. Сурганова, 6, 220012, Минск</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Valery V. Starovoitov – D. Sc. (Engineering), Chief Researcher.</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">valerys@newman.bas-net.by</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Объединенный институт проблем информатики  Национальной академии наук Беларуси</institution></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>The United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2018</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>26</day><month>09</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>15</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>41</fpage><lpage>55</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Старовойтов В.В., 2018</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2018</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Старовойтов В.В.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Starovoitov V.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://inf.grid.by/jour/article/view/438">https://inf.grid.by/jour/article/view/438</self-uri><abstract><p>Исследуются свойства популярной меры сравнения цифрового изображения с эталоном – индекса структурного сходства, называемого в литературе SSIM. Доказывается, что SSIM и производные от него функции не являются метриками. Описываются варианты модификации индекса SSIM. Показывается, что меры, подобные этому индексу, оценивают не качество изображений, а их пофрагментное сходство. Кроме того, отмечается, что усредненные оценки, выставляемые экспертами и называемые MOS, очень субъективны и не могут в точности коррелировать с вычисляемыми количественными оценками сходства сравниваемых изображений. Для подсчета индекса SSIM вычисляется матрица локальных оценок. Каждая оценка определяет сходство двух анализируемых пикселов с одинаковыми координатами с учетом соседних пикселов. Обычно в качестве индекса SSIM используется средняя арифметическая величина полученной матрицы. Вместо нее для усовершенствования индекса SSIM предлагается использовать параметр масштаба распределения Вейбулла, аппроксимирующего гистограмму локальных оценок индекса SSIM. На множестве изображений общедоступной базы TID2013 показывается, что предложенный параметр является более точной характеристикой сходства изображений, чем среднее множество локальных оценок.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Properties of a popular measure of comparing a digital image with a reference – the index of structural    similarity, called SSIM in the literature – are explored. It is proved that the SSIM and its derivative functions are not metrics. Variants of the index modification are described. It is shown that measures similar to this index evaluate not quality of   images, but their similarity by fragments. Additionally, it is shown that the averaged expert assessments called MOS are very subjective and cannot exact correlate with numerical estimates of similarity of the compared images. To get the SSIM index, a matrix of local estimates is calculated. Each evaluation determines similarity of two analyzed pixels with the same coordinates taking into account neighboring pixels. Usually, the average arithmetic value of the obtained matrix is used as the SSIM index. Instead, to improve the SSIM index, it is proposed to use the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution, which approximates the histogram of the local index estimates. On a set of images from the public database TID2013, it is shown that the proposed parameter is a more accurate characteristic of image similarity than the mean of local estimates. </p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>цифровое изображение</kwd><kwd>мера сходства изображений</kwd><kwd>индекс SSIM</kwd><kwd>распределение Вейбулла</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>digital image</kwd><kwd>image similarity measure</kwd><kwd>index SSIM</kwd><kwd>Weibull distribution For citation</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">БРФФИ, проект Ф18МС-028</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity / Z. 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