TID2008 – A database for evaluation of full-reference visual quality assessment metrics

In this paper, a new image database, TID2008, for evaluation of full-reference visual quality assessment metrics is described. It contains 1700 test images (25 reference images, 17 types of distortions for each reference image, 4 different levels of each type of distortion). A comparative analysis of TID20008 and its nearest analog LIVE Database (only 5 types of distortions, less statistical accuracy) is presented. Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) for TID2008 database have been obtained as a result of more than 800 experiments. During these tests, observers from three countries (Finland, Italy, and Ukraine) have carried out about 256000 individual human quality judgments. The obtained MOS can be used for effective…