In comparison by WEBP2 team JPEG is too high and JPEG-XL is too low (but this looks like because of color bleeding). VIFp with fine scale sigma_nsq=256 shows similar results. Apparently it's too much. Fix that by increasing weights of medium frequencies:
In comparison by WEBP2 team JPEG is too high and JPEG-XL is too low (but this looks like because of color bleeding). VIFp with fine scale sigma_nsq=256 shows similar results. Apparently it's too much. Fix that by increasing weights of medium frequencies:
And decrease strength of masking:
This shows similar result to VIFp with sigma_nsq=100 (still a little bit too much in my opinion), which is similar to DSSIM.