UNQA: Unified No-Reference Quality Assessment for Audio, Image, Video, and Audio-Visual Content

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Auteurs principaux: Cao, Yuqin, Min, Xiongkuo, Gao, Yixuan, Sun, Wei, Lin, Weisi, Zhai, Guangtao
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author Cao, Yuqin
Min, Xiongkuo
Gao, Yixuan
Sun, Wei
Lin, Weisi
Zhai, Guangtao
author_facet Cao, Yuqin
Min, Xiongkuo
Gao, Yixuan
Sun, Wei
Lin, Weisi
Zhai, Guangtao
contents As multimedia data flourishes on the Internet, quality assessment (QA) of multimedia data becomes paramount for digital media applications. Since multimedia data includes multiple modalities including audio, image, video, and audio-visual (A/V) content, researchers have developed a range of QA methods to evaluate the quality of different modality data. While they exclusively focus on addressing the single modality QA issues, a unified QA model that can handle diverse media across multiple modalities is still missing, whereas the latter can better resemble human perception behaviour and also have a wider range of applications. In this paper, we propose the Unified No-reference Quality Assessment model (UNQA) for audio, image, video, and A/V content, which tries to train a single QA model across different media modalities. To tackle the issue of inconsistent quality scales among different QA databases, we develop a multi-modality strategy to jointly train UNQA on multiple QA databases. Based on the input modality, UNQA selectively extracts the spatial features, motion features, and audio features, and calculates a final quality score via the four corresponding modality regression modules. Compared with existing QA methods, UNQA has two advantages: 1) the multi-modality training strategy makes the QA model learn more general and robust quality-aware feature representation as evidenced by the superior performance of UNQA compared to state-of-the-art QA methods. 2) UNQA reduces the number of models required to assess multimedia data across different modalities. and is friendly to deploy to practical applications.
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spellingShingle UNQA: Unified No-Reference Quality Assessment for Audio, Image, Video, and Audio-Visual Content
Cao, Yuqin
Min, Xiongkuo
Gao, Yixuan
Sun, Wei
Lin, Weisi
Zhai, Guangtao
Image and Video Processing
Multimedia
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
As multimedia data flourishes on the Internet, quality assessment (QA) of multimedia data becomes paramount for digital media applications. Since multimedia data includes multiple modalities including audio, image, video, and audio-visual (A/V) content, researchers have developed a range of QA methods to evaluate the quality of different modality data. While they exclusively focus on addressing the single modality QA issues, a unified QA model that can handle diverse media across multiple modalities is still missing, whereas the latter can better resemble human perception behaviour and also have a wider range of applications. In this paper, we propose the Unified No-reference Quality Assessment model (UNQA) for audio, image, video, and A/V content, which tries to train a single QA model across different media modalities. To tackle the issue of inconsistent quality scales among different QA databases, we develop a multi-modality strategy to jointly train UNQA on multiple QA databases. Based on the input modality, UNQA selectively extracts the spatial features, motion features, and audio features, and calculates a final quality score via the four corresponding modality regression modules. Compared with existing QA methods, UNQA has two advantages: 1) the multi-modality training strategy makes the QA model learn more general and robust quality-aware feature representation as evidenced by the superior performance of UNQA compared to state-of-the-art QA methods. 2) UNQA reduces the number of models required to assess multimedia data across different modalities. and is friendly to deploy to practical applications.
title UNQA: Unified No-Reference Quality Assessment for Audio, Image, Video, and Audio-Visual Content
topic Image and Video Processing
Multimedia
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19704