UniQA: Unified Vision-Language Pre-training for Image Quality and Aesthetic Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01069v1
• Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 07:40:10 GMT
• Title: UniQA: Unified Vision-Language Pre-training for Image Quality and Aesthetic Assessment
• Authors: Hantao Zhou, Longxiang Tang, Rui Yang, Guanyi Qin, Yan Zhang, Runze Hu, Xiu Li,
• Abstract summary: Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aim to simulate human subjective perception of image visual quality and aesthetic appeal. Existing methods typically address these tasks independently due to distinct learning objectives. We propose Unified vision-language pre-training of Quality and Aesthetics (UniQA) to learn general perceptions of two tasks, thereby benefiting them simultaneously.
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• Abstract: Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aim to simulate human subjective perception of image visual quality and aesthetic appeal. Existing methods typically address these tasks independently due to distinct learning objectives. However, they neglect the underlying interconnectedness of both tasks, which hinders the learning of task-agnostic shared representations for human subjective perception. To confront this challenge, we propose Unified vision-language pre-training of Quality and Aesthetics (UniQA), to learn general perceptions of two tasks, thereby benefiting them simultaneously. Addressing the absence of text in the IQA datasets and the presence of textual noise in the IAA datasets, (1) we utilize multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to generate high-quality text descriptions; (2) the generated text for IAA serves as metadata to purify noisy IAA data. To effectively adapt the pre-trained UniQA to downstream tasks, we further propose a lightweight adapter that utilizes versatile cues to fully exploit the extensive knowledge of the pre-trained model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach attains a new state-of-the-art performance on both IQA and IAA tasks, while concurrently showcasing exceptional zero-shot and few-label image assessment capabilities. The source code will be available at https://github.com/zht8506/UniQA.

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