Attention Down-Sampling Transformer, Relative Ranking and Self-Consistency for Blind Image Quality Assessment

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Auteurs principaux: Alsaafin, Mohammed, Alsheikh, Musab, Anwar, Saeed, Usman, Muhammad
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author Alsaafin, Mohammed
Alsheikh, Musab
Anwar, Saeed
Usman, Muhammad
author_facet Alsaafin, Mohammed
Alsheikh, Musab
Anwar, Saeed
Usman, Muhammad
contents The no-reference image quality assessment is a challenging domain that addresses estimating image quality without the original reference. We introduce an improved mechanism to extract local and non-local information from images via different transformer encoders and CNNs. The utilization of Transformer encoders aims to mitigate locality bias and generate a non-local representation by sequentially processing CNN features, which inherently capture local visual structures. Establishing a stronger connection between subjective and objective assessments is achieved through sorting within batches of images based on relative distance information. A self-consistency approach to self-supervision is presented, explicitly addressing the degradation of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models under equivariant transformations. Our approach ensures model robustness by maintaining consistency between an image and its horizontally flipped equivalent. Through empirical evaluation of five popular image quality assessment datasets, the proposed model outperforms alternative algorithms in the context of no-reference image quality assessment datasets, especially on smaller datasets. Codes are available at \href{https://github.com/mas94/ADTRS}{https://github.com/mas94/ADTRS}
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spellingShingle Attention Down-Sampling Transformer, Relative Ranking and Self-Consistency for Blind Image Quality Assessment
Alsaafin, Mohammed
Alsheikh, Musab
Anwar, Saeed
Usman, Muhammad
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The no-reference image quality assessment is a challenging domain that addresses estimating image quality without the original reference. We introduce an improved mechanism to extract local and non-local information from images via different transformer encoders and CNNs. The utilization of Transformer encoders aims to mitigate locality bias and generate a non-local representation by sequentially processing CNN features, which inherently capture local visual structures. Establishing a stronger connection between subjective and objective assessments is achieved through sorting within batches of images based on relative distance information. A self-consistency approach to self-supervision is presented, explicitly addressing the degradation of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models under equivariant transformations. Our approach ensures model robustness by maintaining consistency between an image and its horizontally flipped equivalent. Through empirical evaluation of five popular image quality assessment datasets, the proposed model outperforms alternative algorithms in the context of no-reference image quality assessment datasets, especially on smaller datasets. Codes are available at \href{https://github.com/mas94/ADTRS}{https://github.com/mas94/ADTRS}
title Attention Down-Sampling Transformer, Relative Ranking and Self-Consistency for Blind Image Quality Assessment
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07115