A stereoscopic quality metric based on binocular perception

This paper presents a new metric for the quality evaluation of stereoscopic images. The proposed metric is inspired from the simple and complex cells response, in which the matching of the left and right retinal images is performed, in the visual cortex. In order to estimate the binocular energy, we used the bandelet transform which is computed on complex wavelet transform. By using the complex wavelet transform, we were able to model the behavior of the simple and complex cells. The proposed model allows the estimation of the degradation of the binocular energy according to the impairments of the right and the left images. Subjective tests have been performed to validate the results obtained by our metric. The results shows a high correlation between the predicted score and the human judgement.