No-Reference Stereoscopic Image Quality Assessment Based On Visual Attention Mechanism

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed an optimized model based on the visual attention mechanism(VAM) for no-reference stereoscopic image quality assessment (SIQA). A CNN model is designed based on dual attention mechanism (DAM), which includes channel attention mechanism and spatial attention mechanism. The channel attention mechanism can give high weight to the features with large contribution to final quality, and small weight to features with low contribution. The spatial attention mechanism considers the inner region of a feature, and different areas are assigned different weights according to the importance of the region within the feature. In addition, data selection strategy is designed for CNN model. According to VAM, visual saliency is applied to guide data selection, and a certain proportion of saliency patches are employed to fine tune the network. The same operation is performed on the test set, which can remove data redundancy and improve algorithm performance. Experimental results on two public databases show that the proposed model is superior to the state-of-the-art SIQA methods. Cross-database validation shows high generalization ability and high effectiveness of our model.