BPCLIP: A Bottom-up Image Quality Assessment from Distortion to Semantics Based on CLIP

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17969v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:56:57 GMT
• Title: BPCLIP: A Bottom-up Image Quality Assessment from Distortion to Semantics Based on CLIP
• Authors: Chenyue Song, Chen Hui, Wei Zhang, Haiqi Zhu, Shaohui Liu, Hong Huang, Feng Jiang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a bottom-up image quality assessment approach based on the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)<n>Specifically, we utilize an encoder to extract multiscale features from the input image and introduce a bottom-up multiscale cross attention module.<n>By incorporating 40 image quality adjectives across six distinct dimensions, we enable the pre-trained CLIP text encoder to generate representations of the intrinsic quality of the image.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Image Quality Assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of images based on human subjective perception. Existing methods generally combine multiscale features to achieve high performance, but most rely on straightforward linear fusion of these features, which may not adequately capture the impact of distortions on semantic content. To address this, we propose a bottom-up image quality assessment approach based on the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP, a recently proposed model that aligns images and text in a shared feature space), named BPCLIP, which progressively extracts the impact of low-level distortions on high-level semantics. Specifically, we utilize an encoder to extract multiscale features from the input image and introduce a bottom-up multiscale cross attention module designed to capture the relationships between shallow and deep features. In addition, by incorporating 40 image quality adjectives across six distinct dimensions, we enable the pre-trained CLIP text encoder to generate representations of the intrinsic quality of the image, thereby strengthening the connection between image quality perception and human language. Our method achieves superior results on most public Full-Reference (FR) and No-Reference (NR) IQA benchmarks, while demonstrating greater robustness.

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