MS-ISSM: Objective Quality Assessment of Point Clouds Using Multi-scale Implicit Structural Similarity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01200v1
• Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:58:52 GMT
• Title: MS-ISSM: Objective Quality Assessment of Point Clouds Using Multi-scale Implicit Structural Similarity
• Authors: Zhang Chen, Shuai Wan, Yuezhe Zhang, Siyu Ren, Fuzheng Yang, Junhui Hou,
• Abstract summary: unstructured and irregular nature of point clouds poses a significant challenge for objective quality assessment (PCQA)<n>We propose the Multi-scale Implicit Structural Similarity Measurement (MS-ISSM)
• Score: 65.85858856481131
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The unstructured and irregular nature of point clouds poses a significant challenge for objective quality assessment (PCQA), particularly in establishing accurate perceptual feature correspondence. To tackle this, we propose the Multi-scale Implicit Structural Similarity Measurement (MS-ISSM). Unlike traditional point-to-point matching, MS-ISSM utilizes Radial Basis Functions (RBF) to represent local features continuously, transforming distortion measurement into a comparison of implicit function coefficients. This approach effectively circumvents matching errors inherent in irregular data. Additionally, we propose a ResGrouped-MLP quality assessment network, which robustly maps multi-scale feature differences to perceptual scores. The network architecture departs from traditional flat MLPs by adopting a grouped encoding strategy integrated with Residual Blocks and Channel-wise Attention mechanisms. This hierarchical design allows the model to preserve the distinct physical semantics of luma, chroma, and geometry while adaptively focusing on the most salient distortion features across High, Medium, and Low scales. Experimental results on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that MS-ISSM outperforms state-of-the-art metrics in both reliability and generalization. The source code is available at: https://github.com/ZhangChen2022/MS-ISSM.

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