1 November 2021 CNN-based no-reference video quality assessment method using a spatiotemporal saliency patch selection procedure
Sana Alamgeer, Muhammad Irshad, Mylène C. Q. Farias
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Abstract

We propose a yet lightweight no-reference (NR) video quality assessment (VQA) method, which uses a convolution neural network (CNN) architecture. The proposed method implements a spatiotemporal saliency patch selection procedure that crops the frame into small nonoverlapping blocks of images (patches) and selects the most perceptually relevant ones. The selected patches are then forwarded to the CNN. To determine which patches are the most relevant, spatial and temporal saliency features are computed for each frame. The proposed method does not require subjective scores to train the CNN. It uses objective quality scores as target quality scores for each video frame, which are computed using an NR image quality assessment method. Given the lack of large annotated video quality databases, this is an advantage of the proposed method. Finally, although it has much smaller cost of data-processing, compared with other state-of-the-art methods, the proposed NR-VQA obtains robust and competitive results.

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Sana Alamgeer, Muhammad Irshad, and Mylène C. Q. Farias "CNN-based no-reference video quality assessment method using a spatiotemporal saliency patch selection procedure," Journal of Electronic Imaging 30(6), 063001 (1 November 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.30.6.063001
Received: 28 February 2021; Accepted: 13 October 2021; Published: 1 November 2021
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KEYWORDS
Video

Databases

Image quality

Video compression

Feature extraction

Visualization

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