Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Xudong, Gao, Timin, Hu, Runze, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Shengchuan, Zheng, Xiawu, Zheng, Jingyuan, Shen, Yunhang, Li, Ke, Liu, Yutao, Dai, Pingyang, Ji, Rongrong
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author Li, Xudong
Gao, Timin
Hu, Runze
Zhang, Yan
Zhang, Shengchuan
Zheng, Xiawu
Zheng, Jingyuan
Shen, Yunhang
Li, Ke
Liu, Yutao
Dai, Pingyang
Ji, Rongrong
author_facet Li, Xudong
Gao, Timin
Hu, Runze
Zhang, Yan
Zhang, Shengchuan
Zheng, Xiawu
Zheng, Jingyuan
Shen, Yunhang
Li, Ke
Liu, Yutao
Dai, Pingyang
Ji, Rongrong
contents The current state-of-the-art No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods typically rely on feature extraction from upstream semantic backbone networks, assuming that all extracted features are relevant. However, we make a key observation that not all features are beneficial, and some may even be harmful, necessitating careful selection. Empirically, we find that many image pairs with small feature spatial distances can have vastly different quality scores, indicating that the extracted features may contain a significant amount of quality-irrelevant noise. To address this issue, we propose a Quality-Aware Feature Matching IQA Metric (QFM-IQM) that employs an adversarial perspective to remove harmful semantic noise features from the upstream task. Specifically, QFM-IQM enhances the semantic noise distinguish capabilities by matching image pairs with similar quality scores but varying semantic features as adversarial semantic noise and adaptively adjusting the upstream task's features by reducing sensitivity to adversarial noise perturbation. Furthermore, we utilize a distillation framework to expand the dataset and improve the model's generalization ability. Our approach achieves superior performance to the state-of-the-art NR-IQA methods on eight standard IQA datasets.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
Li, Xudong
Gao, Timin
Hu, Runze
Zhang, Yan
Zhang, Shengchuan
Zheng, Xiawu
Zheng, Jingyuan
Shen, Yunhang
Li, Ke
Liu, Yutao
Dai, Pingyang
Ji, Rongrong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The current state-of-the-art No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods typically rely on feature extraction from upstream semantic backbone networks, assuming that all extracted features are relevant. However, we make a key observation that not all features are beneficial, and some may even be harmful, necessitating careful selection. Empirically, we find that many image pairs with small feature spatial distances can have vastly different quality scores, indicating that the extracted features may contain a significant amount of quality-irrelevant noise. To address this issue, we propose a Quality-Aware Feature Matching IQA Metric (QFM-IQM) that employs an adversarial perspective to remove harmful semantic noise features from the upstream task. Specifically, QFM-IQM enhances the semantic noise distinguish capabilities by matching image pairs with similar quality scores but varying semantic features as adversarial semantic noise and adaptively adjusting the upstream task's features by reducing sensitivity to adversarial noise perturbation. Furthermore, we utilize a distillation framework to expand the dataset and improve the model's generalization ability. Our approach achieves superior performance to the state-of-the-art NR-IQA methods on eight standard IQA datasets.
title Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06158