Color image quality metric for realistic image rendition

Realistic image rendition, concerning on color constancy and lightness, is usually qualified by subjective evaluation, involving uncertainly psychophysical course. Whether common objective image quality metrics can be adopted to evaluate the rendition results is studied in this paper. Several common objective image quality metrics such as RMES, PSNR, and a newly universal one named Q metric are introduced. Experiments show that it's applicable to take images under standard lighting conditions (e.g. D65) as reference images, which is necessary for objective assessment. Experiment results confirm that introduced objective image quality metrics can help to evaluate the lightness and color constancy ability of images, in case of taking images under standard lights as reference images.