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Hauptverfasser: Xiao, Xiongwei, Chen, Baoying, Zeng, Jishen, Yang, Jianquan
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Xiao, Xiongwei
Chen, Baoying
Zeng, Jishen
Yang, Jianquan
author_facet Xiao, Xiongwei
Chen, Baoying
Zeng, Jishen
Yang, Jianquan
contents Accurately assessing the perceptual quality of face images is crucial, especially with the rapid progress in face restoration and generation. Traditional quality assessment methods often struggle with the unique characteristics of face images, limiting their generalizability. While learning-based approaches demonstrate superior performance due to their strong fitting capabilities, their high complexity typically incurs significant computational and storage costs, hindering practical deployment. To address this, we propose a lightweight face quality assessment network with Multi-Stage Progressive Training (MSPT). Our network employs a three-stage progressive training strategy that gradually introduces more diverse data samples and increases input image resolution. This novel approach enables lightweight networks to achieve high performance by effectively learning complex quality features while significantly mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Our MSPT achieved the second highest score on the VQualA 2025 face image quality assessment benchmark dataset, demonstrating that MSPT achieves comparable or better performance than state-of-the-art methods while maintaining efficient inference.
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spellingShingle MSPT: A Lightweight Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Multi-stage Progressive Training
Xiao, Xiongwei
Chen, Baoying
Zeng, Jishen
Yang, Jianquan
Multimedia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurately assessing the perceptual quality of face images is crucial, especially with the rapid progress in face restoration and generation. Traditional quality assessment methods often struggle with the unique characteristics of face images, limiting their generalizability. While learning-based approaches demonstrate superior performance due to their strong fitting capabilities, their high complexity typically incurs significant computational and storage costs, hindering practical deployment. To address this, we propose a lightweight face quality assessment network with Multi-Stage Progressive Training (MSPT). Our network employs a three-stage progressive training strategy that gradually introduces more diverse data samples and increases input image resolution. This novel approach enables lightweight networks to achieve high performance by effectively learning complex quality features while significantly mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Our MSPT achieved the second highest score on the VQualA 2025 face image quality assessment benchmark dataset, demonstrating that MSPT achieves comparable or better performance than state-of-the-art methods while maintaining efficient inference.
title MSPT: A Lightweight Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Multi-stage Progressive Training
topic Multimedia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07590