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No-reference image quality assessment algorithm based on saliency deep features
Jia LI, Yuanlin ZHENG, Kaiyang LIAO, Haojie LOU, Shiyu LI, Zehao CHEN
Journal of Computer Applications    2022, 42 (6): 1957-1964.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2021040597
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Aiming at the universal No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) algorithms, a new NR-IQA algorithm based on the saliency deep features of the pseudo reference image was proposed. Firstly, based on the distorted image, the corresponding pseudo reference image of the distorted image generated by ConSinGAN model was used as compensation information of the distorted image, thereby making up for the weakness of NR-IQA methods: lacking real reference information. Secondly, the saliency information of the pseudo reference image was extracted, and the pseudo saliency map and the distorted image were input into VGG16 netwok to extract deep features. Finally, the obtained deep features were merged and mapped into the regression network composed of fully connected layers to obtain a quality prediction consistent with human vision.Experiments were conducted on four large public image datasets TID2013, TID2008, CSIQ and LIVE to prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The results show that the Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient (SROCC) of the proposed algorithm on the TID2013 dataset is 5 percentage points higher than that of H-IQA (Hallucinated-IQA) algorithm and 14 percentage points higher than that of RankIQA (learning from Rankings for no-reference IQA) algorithm. The proposed algorithm also has stable performance for the single distortion types. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm is superior to the existing mainstream Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) and NR-IQA algorithms, and is consistent with human subjective perception performance.

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