psnr.m

function n = psnr(x, y)
%PSNR   Compute the peak signal to noise ratio between two images
%   PSNR(X, Y) computes the peak signal to noise ratio in decibels (dB)
%   between images X and Y.
%   The images are assumed to have 256 gray levels (0 .. 255).
%
%   Class support for inputs X and Y:
%        float:   double, single
%        integer: uint*, int*
%
%   See also SNR, IMMSE.
%  
%   Author:  Stefan Roth, Department of Computer Science, Brown University
%   Contact: roth@cs.brown.edu
%   $Date: 2005-06-08 17:10:38 -0400 (Wed, 08 Jun 2005) $
%   $Revision: 48 $
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  diff = double(x) - double(y);
  n = 10 * log10(255^2 / mean(diff(:).^2));