Current subjective methods for evaluation and comparison of image processing techniques are generally not sufficiently relevant and accurate, essentially because they are not correlated with human observation. We propose a method to measure and display color image differences derived from the basic characteristics of human visual perception. This method provides images of color differences. These images can be used to define a global relative measure to predict image quality.
Alain Trémeau, Eric Dinet, Eric Favier, "Measurement and Display of Color Image Differences Based on Visual Attention" in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 1996, pp 522 - 534, https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.1996.40.6.art00008