Image Intrinsic Scale Assessment: Bridging the Gap Between Quality and Resolution

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Hauptverfasser: Hosu, Vlad, Agnolucci, Lorenzo, Iso, Daisuke, Saupe, Dietmar
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author Hosu, Vlad
Agnolucci, Lorenzo
Iso, Daisuke
Saupe, Dietmar
author_facet Hosu, Vlad
Agnolucci, Lorenzo
Iso, Daisuke
Saupe, Dietmar
contents Image Quality Assessment (IQA) measures and predicts perceived image quality by human observers. Although recent studies have highlighted the critical influence that variations in the scale of an image have on its perceived quality, this relationship has not been systematically quantified. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Image Intrinsic Scale (IIS), defined as the largest scale where an image exhibits its highest perceived quality. We also present the Image Intrinsic Scale Assessment (IISA) task, which involves subjectively measuring and predicting the IIS based on human judgments. We develop a subjective annotation methodology and create the IISA-DB dataset, comprising 785 image-IIS pairs annotated by experts in a rigorously controlled crowdsourcing study. Furthermore, we propose WIISA (Weak-labeling for Image Intrinsic Scale Assessment), a strategy that leverages how the IIS of an image varies with downscaling to generate weak labels. Experiments show that applying WIISA during the training of several IQA methods adapted for IISA consistently improves the performance compared to using only ground-truth labels. The code, dataset, and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/SonyResearch/IISA.
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spellingShingle Image Intrinsic Scale Assessment: Bridging the Gap Between Quality and Resolution
Hosu, Vlad
Agnolucci, Lorenzo
Iso, Daisuke
Saupe, Dietmar
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image Quality Assessment (IQA) measures and predicts perceived image quality by human observers. Although recent studies have highlighted the critical influence that variations in the scale of an image have on its perceived quality, this relationship has not been systematically quantified. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Image Intrinsic Scale (IIS), defined as the largest scale where an image exhibits its highest perceived quality. We also present the Image Intrinsic Scale Assessment (IISA) task, which involves subjectively measuring and predicting the IIS based on human judgments. We develop a subjective annotation methodology and create the IISA-DB dataset, comprising 785 image-IIS pairs annotated by experts in a rigorously controlled crowdsourcing study. Furthermore, we propose WIISA (Weak-labeling for Image Intrinsic Scale Assessment), a strategy that leverages how the IIS of an image varies with downscaling to generate weak labels. Experiments show that applying WIISA during the training of several IQA methods adapted for IISA consistently improves the performance compared to using only ground-truth labels. The code, dataset, and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/SonyResearch/IISA.
title Image Intrinsic Scale Assessment: Bridging the Gap Between Quality and Resolution
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06476