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Published September 30, 2020 | Version Accepted pre-print
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NoR-VDPNet: A No-Reference High-Dynamic-Range Quality Metric Trained on HDR-VDP 2

  • 1. ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
  • 2. DeepCamera MRG, RISE Ltd, Nicosia, Cyprus

Description

HDR-VDP 2 has convincingly shown to be a reliable metric for image quality assessment, and it is currently playing a remarkable role in the evaluation of complex image processing algorithms. However, HDR-VDP 2 is known to be computationally expensive (both in terms of time and memory) and is constrained to the availability of a ground-truth image (the so-called reference) against to which the quality of a processed imaged is quantified. These aspects impose severe limitations on the applicability of HDR-VDP 2 to real world scenarios involving large quantities of data or requiring real-time responses. To address these issues, we propose Deep No-Reference Quality Metric (NoR-VDPNet), a deeplearning approach that learns to predict the global image quality feature (i.e., the mean-opinion-score index Q) that HDRVDP 2 computes. NoR-VDPNet is no-reference (i.e., it operates without a ground truth reference) and its computational cost is substantially lower when compared to HDR-VDP 2 (by more than an order of magnitude). We demonstrate the performance of NoR-VDPNet in a variety of scenarios, including the optimization of parameters of a denoiser and JPEG-XT.

Notes

This work has been partly supported by the project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 739578 (RISE – Call: H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2) and the Government of the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development.

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Funding

RISE – Research Center on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies 739578
European Commission
EVOCATION – Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication 813170
European Commission