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2022 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION WORKSHOPS, CVPRW 2022
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 939-949Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00108
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- Humboldt Foundation
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Generative models have improved the quality of generated images for image restoration, enhancement, and generation. Despite producing more visually pleasing images, these models may receive lower perceptual quality scores using traditional metrics. Therefore, it is important to develop a quantitative metric that aligns well with human perception. This study explores transformer-based full-reference IQA models and proposes a method for IQA based on semi-supervised knowledge distillation, achieving competitive results in the NTIRE 2022 Perceptual Image Quality Assessment Challenge.
Generative models for image restoration, enhancement, and generation have significantly improved the quality of the generated images. Surprisingly, these models produce more pleasant images to the human eye than other methods, yet, they may get a lower perceptual quality score using traditional perceptual quality metrics such as PSNR or SSIM. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a quantitative metric to reflect the performance of new algorithms, which should be well-aligned with the person's mean opinion score (MOS). Learning-based approaches for perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) usually require both the distorted and reference image for measuring the perceptual quality accurately. However, commonly only the distorted or generated image is available. In this work, we explore the performance of transformer-based full-reference IQA models. We also propose a method for IQA based on semi-supervised knowledge distillation from full-reference teacher models into blind student models using noisy pseudo-labeled data. Our approaches achieved competitive results on the NTIRE 2022 Perceptual Image Quality Assessment Challenge: our full-reference model was ranked 4th, and our blind noisy student was ranked 3rd among 70 participants, each in their respective track.
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