A multidimensional measurement of photorealistic avatar quality of experience

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09066v1
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:47:24 GMT
• Title: A multidimensional measurement of photorealistic avatar quality of experience
• Authors: Ross Cutler, Babak Naderi, Vishak Gopal, Dharmendar Palle,
• Abstract summary: Photorealistic avatars are human avatars that look, move, and talk like real people. We provide an open source test framework to subjectively measure photorealistic avatar performance in ten dimensions. We show that the correlation of nine of these subjective metrics with PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, FID, and FVD is weak, and moderate for emotion accuracy.
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• Abstract: Photorealistic avatars are human avatars that look, move, and talk like real people. The performance of photorealistic avatars has significantly improved recently based on objective metrics such as PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, FID, and FVD. However, recent photorealistic avatar publications do not provide subjective tests of the avatars to measure human usability factors. We provide an open source test framework to subjectively measure photorealistic avatar performance in ten dimensions: realism, trust, comfortableness using, comfortableness interacting with, appropriateness for work, creepiness, formality, affinity, resemblance to the person, and emotion accuracy. We show that the correlation of nine of these subjective metrics with PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, FID, and FVD is weak, and moderate for emotion accuracy. The crowdsourced subjective test framework is highly reproducible and accurate when compared to a panel of experts. We analyze a wide range of avatars from photorealistic to cartoon-like and show that some photorealistic avatars are approaching real video performance based on these dimensions. We also find that for avatars above a certain level of realism, eight of these measured dimensions are strongly correlated. In particular, for photorealistic avatars there is a linear relationship between avatar affinity and realism; in other words, there is no uncanny valley effect for photorealistic avatars in the telecommunication scenario. We provide several extensions of this test framework for future work and discuss design implications for telecommunication systems. The test framework is available at https://github.com/microsoft/P.910.

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