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2014 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 4241-4248Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2014.540
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- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1359902] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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State-of-the-art general purpose Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) models rely on examples of distorted images and corresponding human opinion scores to learn a regression function that maps image features to a quality score. These types of models are considered opinionaware (OA) BIQA models. A large set of human scored training examples is usually required to train a reliable OA-BIQA model. However, obtaining human opinion scores through subjective testing is often expensive and time-consuming. It is therefore desirable to develop opinionfree (OF) BIQA models that do not require human opinion scores for training. This paper proposes BLISS (Blind Learning of Image Quality using Synthetic Scores). BLISS is a simple, yet effective method for extending OA-BIQA models to OF-BIQA models. Instead of training on human opinion scores, we propose to train BIQA models on synthetic scores derived from Full-Reference (FR) IQA measures. State-of-the-art FR measures yield high correlation with human opinion scores and can serve as approximations to human opinion scores. Unsupervised rank aggregation is applied to combine different FR measures to generate a synthetic score, which serves as a better gold standard. Extensive experiments on standard IQA datasets show that BLISS significantly outperforms previous OF-BIQA methods and is comparable to state-of-the-art OA-BIQA methods.
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