Contrastive Pre-Training with Multi-View Fusion for No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment

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Main Authors: Shan, Ziyu, Zhang, Yujie, Yang, Qi, Yang, Haichen, Xu, Yiling, Hwang, Jenq-Neng, Xu, Xiaozhong, Liu, Shan
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author Shan, Ziyu
Zhang, Yujie
Yang, Qi
Yang, Haichen
Xu, Yiling
Hwang, Jenq-Neng
Xu, Xiaozhong
Liu, Shan
author_facet Shan, Ziyu
Zhang, Yujie
Yang, Qi
Yang, Haichen
Xu, Yiling
Hwang, Jenq-Neng
Xu, Xiaozhong
Liu, Shan
contents No-reference point cloud quality assessment (NR-PCQA) aims to automatically evaluate the perceptual quality of distorted point clouds without available reference, which have achieved tremendous improvements due to the utilization of deep neural networks. However, learning-based NR-PCQA methods suffer from the scarcity of labeled data and usually perform suboptimally in terms of generalization. To solve the problem, we propose a novel contrastive pre-training framework tailored for PCQA (CoPA), which enables the pre-trained model to learn quality-aware representations from unlabeled data. To obtain anchors in the representation space, we project point clouds with different distortions into images and randomly mix their local patches to form mixed images with multiple distortions. Utilizing the generated anchors, we constrain the pre-training process via a quality-aware contrastive loss following the philosophy that perceptual quality is closely related to both content and distortion. Furthermore, in the model fine-tuning stage, we propose a semantic-guided multi-view fusion module to effectively integrate the features of projected images from multiple perspectives. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art PCQA methods on popular benchmarks. Further investigations demonstrate that CoPA can also benefit existing learning-based PCQA models.
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spellingShingle Contrastive Pre-Training with Multi-View Fusion for No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment
Shan, Ziyu
Zhang, Yujie
Yang, Qi
Yang, Haichen
Xu, Yiling
Hwang, Jenq-Neng
Xu, Xiaozhong
Liu, Shan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
No-reference point cloud quality assessment (NR-PCQA) aims to automatically evaluate the perceptual quality of distorted point clouds without available reference, which have achieved tremendous improvements due to the utilization of deep neural networks. However, learning-based NR-PCQA methods suffer from the scarcity of labeled data and usually perform suboptimally in terms of generalization. To solve the problem, we propose a novel contrastive pre-training framework tailored for PCQA (CoPA), which enables the pre-trained model to learn quality-aware representations from unlabeled data. To obtain anchors in the representation space, we project point clouds with different distortions into images and randomly mix their local patches to form mixed images with multiple distortions. Utilizing the generated anchors, we constrain the pre-training process via a quality-aware contrastive loss following the philosophy that perceptual quality is closely related to both content and distortion. Furthermore, in the model fine-tuning stage, we propose a semantic-guided multi-view fusion module to effectively integrate the features of projected images from multiple perspectives. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art PCQA methods on popular benchmarks. Further investigations demonstrate that CoPA can also benefit existing learning-based PCQA models.
title Contrastive Pre-Training with Multi-View Fusion for No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10066