StarVQA+: Co-training Space-Time Attention for Video Quality Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12298v1
• Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:27:31 GMT
• Title: StarVQA+: Co-training Space-Time Attention for Video Quality Assessment
• Authors: Fengchuang Xing, Yuan-Gen Wang, Weixuan Tang, Guopu Zhu, Sam Kwong
• Abstract summary: Self-attention based Transformer has achieved great success in many computer vision tasks. However, its application to video quality assessment (VQA) has not been satisfactory so far. This paper presents a co-trained Space-Time Attention network for the VQA problem, termed StarVQA+.
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• Abstract: Self-attention based Transformer has achieved great success in many computer vision tasks. However, its application to video quality assessment (VQA) has not been satisfactory so far. Evaluating the quality of in-the-wild videos is challenging due to the unknown of pristine reference and shooting distortion. This paper presents a co-trained Space-Time Attention network for the VQA problem, termed StarVQA+. Specifically, we first build StarVQA+ by alternately concatenating the divided space-time attention. Then, to facilitate the training of StarVQA+, we design a vectorized regression loss by encoding the mean opinion score (MOS) to the probability vector and embedding a special token as the learnable variable of MOS, leading to better fitting of human's rating process. Finally, to solve the data hungry problem with Transformer, we propose to co-train the spatial and temporal attention weights using both images and videos. Various experiments are conducted on the de-facto in-the-wild video datasets, including LIVE-Qualcomm, LIVE-VQC, KoNViD-1k, YouTube-UGC, LSVQ, LSVQ-1080p, and DVL2021. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed StarVQA+ over the state-of-the-art.

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