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However, to visualize HDR images on common LDR displays, tone mapping operations (TMOs) are extra required, which inevitably lead to visual quality degradation, especially in the bright and dark regions. To evaluate the performance of different TMOs accurately, this paper proposes a blind tone-mapped image quality assessment method based on regional sparse response and aesthetics (RSRA-BTMI) by considering the influences of detail information and color on the human visual system. Specifically, for the detail loss in a tone-mapped image (TMI), multi-dictionaries are first designed for different brightness regions and whole TMI. Then regional sparse atoms aggregated by local entropy and global reconstruction residuals are presented to characterize the regional and global detail distortion in TMI, respectively. Besides, a few efficient aesthetic features are extracted to measure the color unnaturalness of TMI. Finally, all extracted features are linked with relevant subjective scores to conduct quality regression via random forest. Experimental results on the ESPL-LIVE HDR database demonstrate that the proposed RSRA-BTMI method is superior to the existing state-of-the-art blind TMI quality assessment methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e22080850","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,3]],"date-time":"2020-08-03T03:16:46Z","timestamp":1596424606000},"page":"850","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Blind Tone-Mapped Image Quality Assessment Based on Regional Sparse Response and Aesthetics"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Zhouyan","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mei","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fen","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zongju","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haiyong","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"112","DOI":"10.1109\/MCG.2018.021951638","article-title":"Computational Imaging and Displays: Capturing and displaying richer representations of the world","volume":"38","author":"Masia","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Comput. 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