Sha Wang (University of Ottawa), “Digital Watermarking Based Image and Video Quality Evaluation”, Advisor: Prof. Jiying Zhao (2013)
Image and video quality evaluation is very important. In applications involving signal transmission, the Reduced- or No-Reference quality metrics are generally more practical than the Full-Reference metrics. Digital watermarking based quality evaluation emerges as a potential Reduced- or No-Reference quality metric, which estimates signal quality by assessing the degradation of the embedded watermark.