A multi-criteria image quality evaluation scheme

It is difficult to objectively and quantitatively judge image quality by a single criterion, such as contrast. In general, excessive contrast enhancement easily leads to a loss of image quality. Thus, it easily gives a wrong evaluation to rank image quality according to contrast values. In order to achieve a consistent result with human vision perception, balancing multi-criteria will be a feasible approach. Therefore, we propose a multi-criteria image quality evaluation scheme for ranking seven existing contrast enhancement methods. The scheme applies four criteria to a newly proposed way of computing a grey relational grade (GRGd), called the consistent grey relational grade (CGRGd). Experimental results show that our proposed CGRGd do provides a very effective mechanism to choose the best method for a specific purpose.