Active Fine-Tuning from gMAD Examples Improves Blind Image Quality Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03849v2
• Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:45:16 GMT
• Title: Active Fine-Tuning from gMAD Examples Improves Blind Image Quality Assessment
• Authors: Zhihua Wang and Kede Ma
• Abstract summary: We show that gMAD examples can be used to improve blind IQA (BIQA) methods. Specifically, we first pre-train a DNN-based BIQA model using multiple noisy annotators. We then seek pairs of images by comparing the baseline model with a set of full-reference IQA methods in gMAD.
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• Abstract: The research in image quality assessment (IQA) has a long history, and significant progress has been made by leveraging recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite high correlation numbers on existing IQA datasets, DNN-based models may be easily falsified in the group maximum differentiation (gMAD) competition with strong counterexamples being identified. Here we show that gMAD examples can be used to improve blind IQA (BIQA) methods. Specifically, we first pre-train a DNN-based BIQA model using multiple noisy annotators, and fine-tune it on multiple subject-rated databases of synthetically distorted images, resulting in a top-performing baseline model. We then seek pairs of images by comparing the baseline model with a set of full-reference IQA methods in gMAD. The resulting gMAD examples are most likely to reveal the relative weaknesses of the baseline, and suggest potential ways for refinement. We query ground truth quality annotations for the selected images in a well controlled laboratory environment, and further fine-tune the baseline on the combination of human-rated images from gMAD and existing databases. This process may be iterated, enabling active and progressive fine-tuning from gMAD examples for BIQA. We demonstrate the feasibility of our active learning scheme on a large-scale unlabeled image set, and show that the fine-tuned method achieves improved generalizability in gMAD, without destroying performance on previously trained databases.

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