Quality assessment of pansharpened images is traditionally carried out either at degraded spatial scale by checking the synthesis property of Wald's protocol or at the full spatial scale by separately checking the spectral and spatial consistencies. The spatial distortion of the QNR protocol and the spectral distortion of Khan's protocol may be combined into a unique quality index, referred to as hybrid QNR (HQNR), that is calculated at full scale. Alternatively, multiscale measurements of indices requiring a reference, like SAM, ERGAS and Q4, may be extrapolated to yield a quality measurement at the full scale of the fusion product, where a reference does not exist. Experiments on simulated Pléiades data, of which reference originals at full scale are available, highlight that quadratic polynomials having three-point support, i.e. fitting three measurements at as many progressively doubled scales, are adequate. Q4 is more suitable for extrapolation than ERGAS and SAM. The Q4 value predicted from multiscale measurements and the Q4 value measured at full scale thanks to the reference original, differ by very few percents for six different state-of-The-art methods that have been compared. HQNR is substantially comparable to the extrapolated Q4.
Aiazzi, B., Alparone, L., Baronti, S., Carlà, R., Garzelli, A., Santurri, L. (2014). Full scale assessment of pansharpening methods and data products. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (pp.924402). SPIE [10.1117/12.2067770].
Full scale assessment of pansharpening methods and data products
GARZELLI, ANDREA;
2014-01-01
Abstract
Quality assessment of pansharpened images is traditionally carried out either at degraded spatial scale by checking the synthesis property of Wald's protocol or at the full spatial scale by separately checking the spectral and spatial consistencies. The spatial distortion of the QNR protocol and the spectral distortion of Khan's protocol may be combined into a unique quality index, referred to as hybrid QNR (HQNR), that is calculated at full scale. Alternatively, multiscale measurements of indices requiring a reference, like SAM, ERGAS and Q4, may be extrapolated to yield a quality measurement at the full scale of the fusion product, where a reference does not exist. Experiments on simulated Pléiades data, of which reference originals at full scale are available, highlight that quadratic polynomials having three-point support, i.e. fitting three measurements at as many progressively doubled scales, are adequate. Q4 is more suitable for extrapolation than ERGAS and SAM. The Q4 value predicted from multiscale measurements and the Q4 value measured at full scale thanks to the reference original, differ by very few percents for six different state-of-The-art methods that have been compared. HQNR is substantially comparable to the extrapolated Q4.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
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