Q-Adapt: Adapting LMM for Visual Quality Assessment with Progressive Instruction Tuning

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Hauptverfasser: Lu, Yiting, Li, Xin, Wu, Haoning, Li, Bingchen, Lin, Weisi, Chen, Zhibo
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author Lu, Yiting
Li, Xin
Wu, Haoning
Li, Bingchen
Lin, Weisi
Chen, Zhibo
author_facet Lu, Yiting
Li, Xin
Wu, Haoning
Li, Bingchen
Lin, Weisi
Chen, Zhibo
contents The rapid advancement of Large Multi-modal Foundation Models (LMM) has paved the way for the possible Explainable Image Quality Assessment (EIQA) with instruction tuning from two perspectives: overall quality explanation, and attribute-wise perception answering. However, existing works usually overlooked the conflicts between these two types of perception explanations during joint instruction tuning, leading to insufficient perception understanding. To mitigate this, we propose a new paradigm for perception-oriented instruction tuning, i.e., Q-Adapt, which aims to eliminate the conflicts and achieve the synergy between these two EIQA tasks when adapting LMM, resulting in enhanced multi-faceted explanations of IQA. Particularly, we propose a progressive instruction tuning strategy by dividing the adaption process of LMM for EIQA into two stages, where the first stage empowers the LMM with universal perception knowledge tailored for two tasks using an efficient transfer learning strategy, i.e., LoRA, and the second stage introduces the instruction-adaptive visual prompt tuning to dynamically adapt visual features for the different instructions from two tasks. In this way, our proposed Q-Adapt can achieve a lightweight visual quality evaluator, demonstrating comparable performance and, in some instances, superior results across perceptual-related benchmarks and commonly-used IQA databases. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/yeppp27/Q-Adapt.
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spellingShingle Q-Adapt: Adapting LMM for Visual Quality Assessment with Progressive Instruction Tuning
Lu, Yiting
Li, Xin
Wu, Haoning
Li, Bingchen
Lin, Weisi
Chen, Zhibo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
The rapid advancement of Large Multi-modal Foundation Models (LMM) has paved the way for the possible Explainable Image Quality Assessment (EIQA) with instruction tuning from two perspectives: overall quality explanation, and attribute-wise perception answering. However, existing works usually overlooked the conflicts between these two types of perception explanations during joint instruction tuning, leading to insufficient perception understanding. To mitigate this, we propose a new paradigm for perception-oriented instruction tuning, i.e., Q-Adapt, which aims to eliminate the conflicts and achieve the synergy between these two EIQA tasks when adapting LMM, resulting in enhanced multi-faceted explanations of IQA. Particularly, we propose a progressive instruction tuning strategy by dividing the adaption process of LMM for EIQA into two stages, where the first stage empowers the LMM with universal perception knowledge tailored for two tasks using an efficient transfer learning strategy, i.e., LoRA, and the second stage introduces the instruction-adaptive visual prompt tuning to dynamically adapt visual features for the different instructions from two tasks. In this way, our proposed Q-Adapt can achieve a lightweight visual quality evaluator, demonstrating comparable performance and, in some instances, superior results across perceptual-related benchmarks and commonly-used IQA databases. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/yeppp27/Q-Adapt.
title Q-Adapt: Adapting LMM for Visual Quality Assessment with Progressive Instruction Tuning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01655