Quality Assessment of 2.5D Prints Using 2D Image Quality Metrics

• Main Authors: Altynay Kadyrova, Vlado Kitanovski, Marius Pedersen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: image quality metrics; quality assessment; 2.5D printing
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/16/7470

Quality assessment is an important aspect in a variety of application areas. In this work, the objective quality assessment of 2.5D prints was performed. The work is done on camera captures under both diffuse (single-shot) and directional (multiple-shot) illumination. Current state-of-the-art 2D full-reference image quality metrics were used to predict the quality of 2.5D prints. The results showed that the selected metrics can detect differences between the prints as well as between a print and its 2D reference image. Moreover, the metrics better detected differences in the multiple-shot set-up captures than in the single-shot set-up ones. Although the results are based on a limited number of images, they show existing metrics’ ability to work with 2.5D prints under limited conditions.