perceptualdiff - a program that compares two images using
a perceptually based image metric.
Copyright (C) 2006 Yangli Hector Yee
yeehector@users.sourceforge.net
http://pdiff.sourceforge.net/

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 gpl.txt.

Build Instructions
1. Download cross platform make from http://www.cmake.org
2. Download freeimage from https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeimage
3. Edit CMakeLists.txt to tell it where to find your free image build
4. Type cmake .
5. Type make . (or on Windows systems cmake makes a Visual Studio
Project file)
6. To specify the install directory, use make install DESTDIR="/home/me/mydist"

Usage

perceptualdiff image1.(tif | png) image2.(tif | png) [options]
-verbose        : Turns on verbose mode
-fov deg        : field of view, deg, in degrees. Usually between 10.0 to 85.0. 
 This controls how much of the screen the oberserver is seeing. Front row of 
 a theatre has a field of view of around 25 degrees. Back row has a field of
 view of around 60 degrees.
-threshold p    : Sets the number of pixels, p, to reject. For example if p is
 100, then the test fails if 100 or more pixels are perceptably different.
-gamma g        : The gamma to use to convert to RGB linear space. Default is 2.2
-luminance l    : The luminance of the display the observer is seeing. Default
 is 100 candela per meter squared
-colorfactor    : How much of color to use, 0.0 to 1.0, 0.0 = ignore color.
-downsample     : How many powers of two to down sample the image.
-output foo.ppm : Saves the difference image to foo.ppm

Credits

Hector Yee: project administrator and originator - hectorgon.blogspot.com
Scott Corley: png file IO code
Tobias Sauerwein: make install, package_source Cmake configuration
Jeff Breidenbach: Debian Packaging
Cairo Team: bugfixes
Chris Foster: administration and patching
Jim Tilander: rewriting the IO to use FreeImage
Ivo Pavlik: floating-point image formats support

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.
1.2.0 - Added support for floating-point image formats.