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To recognize or not to recognize – A database of encrypted images with subjective recognition ground truth

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The assessment of very low quality visual data is known to be difficult. In particular, the ability of humans to recognize encrypted visual data is currently impossible to determine computationally. The human vision research community has widely studied some particular topics, such as image quality assessment or the determination of a visibility threshold, while others are still barely researched, specifically visual content recognition. To this day, there does not exist a reliable recognition index that can be employed for such tasks. In order to enable the study of human image content recognition, and in an attempt to propose a corresponding recognizability index, we build a dataset of selectively encrypted images together with subjective ground-truth about their human intelligibility. The methods of acquisition, setup, protocol, outlier detection, are described and we suggest how to calculate a recognition score as well as a recognition threshold. The performance of traditional visual quality indices to predict human visual content recognition is assessed on these data and found to be inapt to estimate recognition of visual content. Contrasting, structure based recognition indices as proposed for this task are shown to represent a promising starting point for further research. To facilitate the creation of a recognition index and to foster further research into human visual content recognition and its relation to the human visual system we will make the database publicly available.
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hal-03081022 , version 1 (18-12-2020)

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Heinz Hofbauer, Florent Autrusseau, Andreas Uhl. To recognize or not to recognize – A database of encrypted images with subjective recognition ground truth. Information Sciences, 2021, 551, pp.128 - 145. ⟨10.1016/j.ins.2020.11.047⟩. ⟨hal-03081022⟩
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