Bridge the Gap Between Full-Reference and No-Reference:A Totally Full-Reference Induced Blind Image Quality Assessment via Deep Neural Networks  

作　　者：Xiaoyu Ma Suiyu Zhang Chang Liu Dingguo Yu 

机构地区：[1]Communication University of Zhejiang,No.998,Xueyuan Road,Qiantang District,Hangzhou 310042,Zhejiang,China [2]Peng Cheng Laboratory,No.2,Xingke Road,Nanshan District,Shenzhen 518055,Guangdong,China

出　　处：《China Communications》2023年第6期215-228,共14页中国通信（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Public Welfare Technology Application Research Project of Zhejiang Province,China(No.LGF21F010001);the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province,China(Grant No.2019C01002);the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province,China(Grant No.2021C03138)。

摘　　要：Blind image quality assessment(BIQA)is of fundamental importance in low-level computer vision community.Increasing interest has been drawn in exploiting deep neural networks for BIQA.Despite of the notable success achieved,there is a broad consensus that training deep convolutional neural networks(DCNN)heavily relies on massive annotated data.Unfortunately,BIQA is typically a small sample problem,resulting the generalization ability of BIQA severely restricted.In order to improve the accuracy and generalization ability of BIQA metrics,this work proposed a totally opinion-unaware BIQA in which no subjective annotations are involved in the training stage.Multiple full-reference image quality assessment(FR-IQA)metrics are employed to label the distorted image as a substitution of subjective quality annotation.A deep neural network(DNN)is trained to blindly predict the multiple FR-IQA score in absence of corresponding pristine image.In the end,a selfsupervised FR-IQA score aggregator implemented by adversarial auto-encoder pools the predictions of multiple FR-IQA scores into the final quality predicting score.Even though none of subjective scores are involved in the training stage,experimental results indicate that our proposed full reference induced BIQA framework is as competitive as state-of-the-art BIQA metrics.

关 键 词：deep neural networks image quality assessment adversarial auto encoder 

分 类 号：TP183[自动化与计算机技术—控制理论与控制工程] TP391.41[自动化与计算机技术—控制科学与工程]