perceptualdiff

A program that compares two images using a perceptually based image metric.

Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Yangli Hector Yee

Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Steven Myint, Jeff Terrace

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details in the file LICENSE.

Build Instructions

1. Download CMake from http://www.cmake.org if you do not already have it on your system.

2. Download FreeImage from https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeimage.

   • On OS X with MacPorts: port install freeimage
   • On OS X with Brew: brew install freeimage
   • On Ubuntu: apt-get install libfreeimage-dev

3. Type:

   $ make
   

4. To specify the install directory, use:

   $ make install DESTDIR="/home/me/mydist"
   

Usage

Command line:

Usage: perceptualdiff image1 image2

Compares image1 and image2 using a perceptually based image metric.

Options:
  --verbose         Turn on verbose mode
  --fov deg         Field of view in degrees [0.1, 89.9] (default: 45.0)
  --threshold p     Number of pixels p below which differences are ignored
  --gamma g         Value to convert rgb into linear space (default: 2.2)
  --luminance l     White luminance (default: 100.0 cdm^-2)
  --luminance-only  Only consider luminance; ignore chroma (color) in the
                    comparison
  --color-factor    How much of color to use [0.0, 1.0] (default: 1.0)
  --down-sample     How many powers of two to down sample the image
                    (default: 0)
  --scale           Scale images to match each other's dimensions
  --sum-errors      Print a sum of the luminance and color differences
  --output o        Write difference to the file o
  --version         Print version

Check that perceptualdiff is built with OpenMP support:

$ ./perceptualdiff | grep -i openmp
OpenMP status: enabled

Credits

• Hector Yee, project administrator and originator - hectorgon.blogspot.com.
• Scott Corley, for png file IO code.
• Tobias Sauerwein, for make install, package_source Cmake configuration.
• Cairo Team, for bugfixes.
• Jim Tilander, rewrote the IO to use FreeImage.
• Steven Myint, for OpenMP support and bug fixes.
• Jeff Terrace, for better FreeImage support and new command-line options.

Version History

• 1.0 - Initial distribution
• 1.0.1 - Fixed off by one convolution error and libpng interface to 1.2.8
• 1.0.2 - [jt] Converted the loading and saving routines to use FreeImage
• 1.1 - Added colorfactor and downsample options. Also always output difference file if requested. Always print out differing pixels even if the test passes.
• 1.1.1 - Turn off color test in low lighting conditions.
• 1.1.2 - Add OpenMP parallel processing support and fix bugs.
• 1.2 - Add --sum-errors, use more standard option style, and fix bugs.
• 1.3 - Add MSVC compatibility.
• 1.4 - Detect differences due to the alpha channel. This was lost in 1.0.2 when FreeImage was introduced.
• 2.0 - Support usage as a library.
• 2.1 - Allow accessing stats directly when used as a library.

Usage as a library

#include <perceptualdiff/metric.h>
#include <perceptualdiff/rgba_image.h>

int main()
{
    const auto a = pdiff::read_from_file("a.png");
    const auto b = pdiff::read_from_file("b.png");

    const bool same = pdiff::yee_compare(*a, *b);
}

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