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Main Authors: Liu, Yongxu, Quan, Yinghui, Xiao, Guoyao, Li, Aobo, Wu, Jinjian
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02614
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author Liu, Yongxu
Quan, Yinghui
Xiao, Guoyao
Li, Aobo
Wu, Jinjian
author_facet Liu, Yongxu
Quan, Yinghui
Xiao, Guoyao
Li, Aobo
Wu, Jinjian
contents Quality assessment of images and videos emphasizes both local details and global semantics, whereas general data sampling methods (e.g., resizing, cropping or grid-based fragment) fail to catch them simultaneously. To address the deficiency, current approaches have to adopt multi-branch models and take as input the multi-resolution data, which burdens the model complexity. In this work, instead of stacking up models, a more elegant data sampling method (named as SAMA, scaling and masking) is explored, which compacts both the local and global content in a regular input size. The basic idea is to scale the data into a pyramid first, and reduce the pyramid into a regular data dimension with a masking strategy. Benefiting from the spatial and temporal redundancy in images and videos, the processed data maintains the multi-scale characteristics with a regular input size, thus can be processed by a single-branch model. We verify the sampling method in image and video quality assessment. Experiments show that our sampling method can improve the performance of current single-branch models significantly, and achieves competitive performance to the multi-branch models without extra model complexity. The source code will be available at https://github.com/Sissuire/SAMA.
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spellingShingle Scaling and Masking: A New Paradigm of Data Sampling for Image and Video Quality Assessment
Liu, Yongxu
Quan, Yinghui
Xiao, Guoyao
Li, Aobo
Wu, Jinjian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Quality assessment of images and videos emphasizes both local details and global semantics, whereas general data sampling methods (e.g., resizing, cropping or grid-based fragment) fail to catch them simultaneously. To address the deficiency, current approaches have to adopt multi-branch models and take as input the multi-resolution data, which burdens the model complexity. In this work, instead of stacking up models, a more elegant data sampling method (named as SAMA, scaling and masking) is explored, which compacts both the local and global content in a regular input size. The basic idea is to scale the data into a pyramid first, and reduce the pyramid into a regular data dimension with a masking strategy. Benefiting from the spatial and temporal redundancy in images and videos, the processed data maintains the multi-scale characteristics with a regular input size, thus can be processed by a single-branch model. We verify the sampling method in image and video quality assessment. Experiments show that our sampling method can improve the performance of current single-branch models significantly, and achieves competitive performance to the multi-branch models without extra model complexity. The source code will be available at https://github.com/Sissuire/SAMA.
title Scaling and Masking: A New Paradigm of Data Sampling for Image and Video Quality Assessment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02614