Temporal Inconsistency Guidance for Super-resolution Video Quality Assessment

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Main Authors: Li, Yixiao, Yang, Xiaoyuan, Liu, Weide, Jin, Xin, Jia, Xu, Lai, Yukun, Rosin, Paul L, Liu, Haotao, Zhou, Wei
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author Li, Yixiao
Yang, Xiaoyuan
Liu, Weide
Jin, Xin
Jia, Xu
Lai, Yukun
Rosin, Paul L
Liu, Haotao
Zhou, Wei
author_facet Li, Yixiao
Yang, Xiaoyuan
Liu, Weide
Jin, Xin
Jia, Xu
Lai, Yukun
Rosin, Paul L
Liu, Haotao
Zhou, Wei
contents As super-resolution (SR) techniques introduce unique distortions that fundamentally differ from those caused by traditional degradation processes (e.g., compression), there is an increasing demand for specialized video quality assessment (VQA) methods tailored to SR-generated content. One critical factor affecting perceived quality is temporal inconsistency, which refers to irregularities between consecutive frames. However, existing VQA approaches rarely quantify this phenomenon or explicitly investigate its relationship with human perception. Moreover, SR videos exhibit amplified inconsistency levels as a result of enhancement processes. In this paper, we propose \textit{Temporal Inconsistency Guidance for Super-resolution Video Quality Assessment (TIG-SVQA)} that underscores the critical role of temporal inconsistency in guiding the quality assessment of SR videos. We first design a perception-oriented approach to quantify frame-wise temporal inconsistency. Based on this, we introduce the Inconsistency Highlighted Spatial Module, which localizes inconsistent regions at both coarse and fine scales. Inspired by the human visual system, we further develop an Inconsistency Guided Temporal Module that performs progressive temporal feature aggregation: (1) a consistency-aware fusion stage in which a visual memory capacity block adaptively determines the information load of each temporal segment based on inconsistency levels, and (2) an informative filtering stage for emphasizing quality-related features. Extensive experiments on both single-frame and multi-frame SR video scenarios demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art VQA approaches. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/Lighting-YXLI/TIG-SVQA-main.
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spellingShingle Temporal Inconsistency Guidance for Super-resolution Video Quality Assessment
Li, Yixiao
Yang, Xiaoyuan
Liu, Weide
Jin, Xin
Jia, Xu
Lai, Yukun
Rosin, Paul L
Liu, Haotao
Zhou, Wei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Image and Video Processing
As super-resolution (SR) techniques introduce unique distortions that fundamentally differ from those caused by traditional degradation processes (e.g., compression), there is an increasing demand for specialized video quality assessment (VQA) methods tailored to SR-generated content. One critical factor affecting perceived quality is temporal inconsistency, which refers to irregularities between consecutive frames. However, existing VQA approaches rarely quantify this phenomenon or explicitly investigate its relationship with human perception. Moreover, SR videos exhibit amplified inconsistency levels as a result of enhancement processes. In this paper, we propose \textit{Temporal Inconsistency Guidance for Super-resolution Video Quality Assessment (TIG-SVQA)} that underscores the critical role of temporal inconsistency in guiding the quality assessment of SR videos. We first design a perception-oriented approach to quantify frame-wise temporal inconsistency. Based on this, we introduce the Inconsistency Highlighted Spatial Module, which localizes inconsistent regions at both coarse and fine scales. Inspired by the human visual system, we further develop an Inconsistency Guided Temporal Module that performs progressive temporal feature aggregation: (1) a consistency-aware fusion stage in which a visual memory capacity block adaptively determines the information load of each temporal segment based on inconsistency levels, and (2) an informative filtering stage for emphasizing quality-related features. Extensive experiments on both single-frame and multi-frame SR video scenarios demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art VQA approaches. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/Lighting-YXLI/TIG-SVQA-main.
title Temporal Inconsistency Guidance for Super-resolution Video Quality Assessment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18933