Multi-scale metric MS-PSNR shows good correlation to human judgement in the evaluation of images with common distortion types: JPEG2000, JPEG, blur, fast fading. MS-PSNR metric is based on low-pass pyramid decomposition and product of Mean Squared Errors from higher pyramid scales.
The performances of the metric MS-PSNR evaluated on the stereoscopic image database LIVE3D are shown in the file MSPSNR_performances.pdf.
The Matlab code for the MS-PSNR metric is available in the file mspsnr.m.
The metric MS-PSNR is introduced in:
D Sandic-Stankovic, D Kukolj, P Le Callet, "Image quality assessment based on pyramid decomposition and mean squared error", TELFOR, Belgrade, November 2015.