• 基于多任务学习的无参考立体图像质量评价

    No-Reference stereoscopic image quality assessment based on multi-task learning

    • 与平面图像质量评价相比,立体图像质量评价需要考虑左右视图双目融合和双目交互等复杂特性,因而更具挑战性。为此,结合人眼左右视觉感知特性,提出了一种多任务学习的无参考立体图像质量评价网络。首先,建立双通道卷积神经网络用于左右视图的特征提取和质量预测任务;其次,设计一种自适应双目交互模块来模拟人类视觉系统视觉皮层的双目交互机制;最后,考虑到人眼双目融合和竞争的特性,又将左右视图特征的融合图像和视差图像与所提取的单目视图特征相互连接作为立体图像的特征,并以此评估立体图像质量。该方法在Waterloo-P1和Waterloo-P2公开数据集上的Pearson线性相关系数分别为0.976和0.982,Spearman等级相关系数分别为0.974和0.980,相比其他新近算法性能更优。实验结果表明:与单任务模型相比,所提方法获得了更好的性能,表现出与人类主观评价高度的一致性。此外,跨数据集实验也验证了该多任务学习模型的泛化能力,具有较好的普适性。

       

      Abstract: Compared with the planar image quality assessment, the stereoscopic image quality assessment is more challenging because it needs to consider the complex characteristics of binocular fusion of left and right views and binocular interaction. For this reason, this paper proposes a no-reference stereoscopic image quality assessment network based on multi-task learning by combining the left and right visual perception characteristics of the human eye. Firstly, a two-channel convolutional neural network is built for feature extraction and quality assessment tasks of the left and right views. Secondly, an adaptive binocular interaction module is designed to simulate binocular interaction mechanism in HVS visual cortex. Finally, considering the characteristics of binocular fusion and rivalry of the human eyes, the fusion and disparity images of the left and right view feature blocks are connected with monocular extraction features as the stereoscopic features to evaluate the stereo image quality. The method on the Waterloo-P1 and Waterloo-P2 public databases exhibits that the Pearson linear correlation coefficients are 0.976 and 0.982 respectively, and Spearman rank correlation coefficients are 0.974 and 0.980 respectively, which is better than some other state-of-art algorithms. The experimental results show that compared with the single-task model, the proposed method achieves better performance, showing a high consistency with human subjective evaluation. In addition, the cross-dataset experiments also validate the generalization capability of the multi-task learning algorithm, which has good universality.

       

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