A Statistical Approach to Volume Data Quality Assessment

Quality assessment plays a crucial role in data analysis. In this paper, we present a reduced-reference approach to volume data quality assessment. Our algorithm extracts important statistical information from the original data in the wavelet domain. Using the extracted information as feature and predefined distance functions, we are able to identify and quantify the quality loss in the reduced or distorted version of data, eliminating the need to access the original data. Our feature representation is naturally organized in the form of multiple scales, thus facilitating the quality evaluation of data with different resolutions. The feature can be effectively compressed and minimized in size. Furthermore, our experiment shows that the size of the feature does not increase in proportion to the size of original data. This ensures the scalability of our algorithm and makes it very applicable for quality assessment of large-scale data sets. In addition, the feature not only serves as the ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TVCG
• Authors: Chaoli Wang, Kwan-Liu Ma
• Keywords: Data Quality Assessment, Original Data, Quality Assessment, TVCG 2008