Blind Image Quality Assessment Using Multi-Stream Architecture with Spatial and Channel Attention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09857v3
• Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:56:53 GMT
• Title: Blind Image Quality Assessment Using Multi-Stream Architecture with Spatial and Channel Attention
• Authors: Muhammad Azeem Aslam, Xu Wei, Hassan Khalid, Nisar Ahmed, Zhu Shuangtong, Xin Liu, Yimei Xu,
• Abstract summary: BIQA (Blind Image Quality Assessment) is an important field of study that evaluates images automatically. Most algorithms generate quality without emphasizing the important region of interest. A multi-stream spatial and channel attention-based algorithm is being proposed to solve this problem.
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• Abstract: BIQA (Blind Image Quality Assessment) is an important field of study that evaluates images automatically. Although significant progress has been made, blind image quality assessment remains a difficult task since images vary in content and distortions. Most algorithms generate quality without emphasizing the important region of interest. In order to solve this, a multi-stream spatial and channel attention-based algorithm is being proposed. This algorithm generates more accurate predictions with a high correlation to human perceptual assessment by combining hybrid features from two different backbones, followed by spatial and channel attention to provide high weights to the region of interest. Four legacy image quality assessment datasets are used to validate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. Authentic and synthetic distortion image databases are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and we show that it has excellent generalization properties with a particular focus on the perceptual foreground information.

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