Predicting perceptual quality of images in realistic scenario using deep filter banks

Weixia Zhang; Jia Yan; Shiyong Hu; Yang Ma; Dexiang Deng

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.27.2.023037

28 April 2018 Predicting perceptual quality of images in realistic scenario using deep filter banks

Weixia Zhang, Jia Yan, Shiyong Hu, Yang Ma, Dexiang Deng

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 27, Issue 2, 023037 (April 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.2.023037

Abstract

Classical image perceptual quality assessment models usually resort to natural scene statistic methods, which are based on an assumption that certain reliable statistical regularities hold on undistorted images and will be corrupted by introduced distortions. However, these models usually fail to accurately predict degradation severity of images in realistic scenarios since complex, multiple, and interactive authentic distortions usually appear on them. We propose a quality prediction model based on convolutional neural network. Quality-aware features extracted from filter banks of multiple convolutional layers are aggregated into the image representation. Furthermore, an easy-to-implement and effective feature selection strategy is used to further refine the image representation and finally a linear support vector regression model is trained to map image representation into images’ subjective perceptual quality scores. The experimental results on benchmark databases present the effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed model.

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Weixia Zhang, Jia Yan, Shiyong Hu, Yang Ma, and Dexiang Deng "Predicting perceptual quality of images in realistic scenario using deep filter banks," Journal of Electronic Imaging 27(2), 023037 (28 April 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.2.023037

Received: 29 November 2017; Accepted: 5 April 2018; Published: 28 April 2018

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