readme.txt

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% ESIM Index for SCI, Version 1.0
% Copyright(c) 2017 Zhangkai Ni, Lin Ma, Huanqiang Zeng, Jing Chen, Canhui Cai, and
% Kai-Kuang Ma
% All Rights Reserved.
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% Permission to use, copy, or modify this software and its documentation
% for educational and research purposes only and without fee is here
% granted, provided that this copyright notice and the original authors'
% names appear on all copies and supporting documentation. This program
% shall not be used, rewritten, or adapted as the basis of a commercial
% software or hardware product without first obtaining permission of the
% authors. The authors make no representations about the suitability of
% this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express
% or implied warranty.
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% This is an implementation of the algorithm for calculating the
% edge similarity (ESIM) index between two images.
%
% Please refer to the following paper
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% Z. Ni, L. Ma, H. Zeng, J. Chen, C. Cai, and K.-K. Ma, “ESIM: Edge 
% similarity for screen content image quality assessment,” IEEE Transactions 
% on Image Processing, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 4818–4831, June 2017.
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%Input : (1) Y1: the first image being compared
%        (2) Y2: the second image being compared
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%Output: (1) index: is the similarty score calculated using ESIM algorithm.
%	     ESIM only considers the luminance component of images. 
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%        (2) SimMatrix: is the local quality map of the distorted image
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%Usage:
%Given 2 test images img1 and img2. For gray-scale images, their dynamic range should be 0-255.
%For colorful images, the dynamic range of each color channel should be 0-255.
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%[index, SimMatrix] = ESIM(img1, img2);
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Implementation: run demo.m