Microsoft Word - Paper_final

+ Corresponding author. Abstract— A novel metric for full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) is proposed in this paper. Based on the sparse representation in independent component analysis (ICA) domain, the image basis is generated from natural images adaptively, which coincides with the characteristics of human vision system (HVS). In order to extract the feature vector, a hybrid norm optimization strategy is introduced for achieving more stable computational performances. The proposed IQA metric is calculated as a correlation coefficient between the two feature vectors from reference and distorted images, respectively. Experimental results on the LIVE Database Release 2 demonstrate that the proposed metric can achieve competitive performances as compared to the well-known structural similarity (SSIM) metric.