From Images to Point Clouds: An Efficient Solution for Cross-media Blind Quality Assessment without Annotated Training

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Autores principales: Liu, Yipeng, Yang, Qi, Zhang, Yujie, Xu, Yiling, Yang, Le, Li, Zhu
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author Liu, Yipeng
Yang, Qi
Zhang, Yujie
Xu, Yiling
Yang, Le
Li, Zhu
author_facet Liu, Yipeng
Yang, Qi
Zhang, Yujie
Xu, Yiling
Yang, Le
Li, Zhu
contents We present a novel quality assessment method which can predict the perceptual quality of point clouds from new scenes without available annotations by leveraging the rich prior knowledge in images, called the Distribution-Weighted Image-Transferred Point Cloud Quality Assessment (DWIT-PCQA). Recognizing the human visual system (HVS) as the decision-maker in quality assessment regardless of media types, we can emulate the evaluation criteria for human perception via neural networks and further transfer the capability of quality prediction from images to point clouds by leveraging the prior knowledge in the images. Specifically, domain adaptation (DA) can be leveraged to bridge the images and point clouds by aligning feature distributions of the two media in the same feature space. However, the different manifestations of distortions in images and point clouds make feature alignment a difficult task. To reduce the alignment difficulty and consider the different distortion distribution during alignment, we have derived formulas to decompose the optimization objective of the conventional DA into two suboptimization functions with distortion as a transition. Specifically, through network implementation, we propose the distortion-guided biased feature alignment which integrates existing/estimated distortion distribution into the adversarial DA framework, emphasizing common distortion patterns during feature alignment. Besides, we propose the quality-aware feature disentanglement to mitigate the destruction of the mapping from features to quality during alignment with biased distortions. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method exhibits reliable performance compared to general blind PCQA methods without needing point cloud annotations.
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spellingShingle From Images to Point Clouds: An Efficient Solution for Cross-media Blind Quality Assessment without Annotated Training
Liu, Yipeng
Yang, Qi
Zhang, Yujie
Xu, Yiling
Yang, Le
Li, Zhu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
We present a novel quality assessment method which can predict the perceptual quality of point clouds from new scenes without available annotations by leveraging the rich prior knowledge in images, called the Distribution-Weighted Image-Transferred Point Cloud Quality Assessment (DWIT-PCQA). Recognizing the human visual system (HVS) as the decision-maker in quality assessment regardless of media types, we can emulate the evaluation criteria for human perception via neural networks and further transfer the capability of quality prediction from images to point clouds by leveraging the prior knowledge in the images. Specifically, domain adaptation (DA) can be leveraged to bridge the images and point clouds by aligning feature distributions of the two media in the same feature space. However, the different manifestations of distortions in images and point clouds make feature alignment a difficult task. To reduce the alignment difficulty and consider the different distortion distribution during alignment, we have derived formulas to decompose the optimization objective of the conventional DA into two suboptimization functions with distortion as a transition. Specifically, through network implementation, we propose the distortion-guided biased feature alignment which integrates existing/estimated distortion distribution into the adversarial DA framework, emphasizing common distortion patterns during feature alignment. Besides, we propose the quality-aware feature disentanglement to mitigate the destruction of the mapping from features to quality during alignment with biased distortions. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method exhibits reliable performance compared to general blind PCQA methods without needing point cloud annotations.
title From Images to Point Clouds: An Efficient Solution for Cross-media Blind Quality Assessment without Annotated Training
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13387