✌️👍🚩 $\mathbb{VIP}$Net: Visual Interaction Perceptual Network for Blind Image Quality Assessment

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📁 Intro

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🔄 Workflow

To retrain DPM, you can either follow the steps below or download the author's pre-trained weights directly.

• Generate distorted images. Relevant descriptions can be found below.
• Train the distortion perception model by ensuring the correct dataset path and executing the following command:

bash train_dpm.sh

• After training is complete, move the best pre-trained weights to folder 'pretrained_model'.

Next, evaluate the proposed model on IQA datasets using the following steps:

• For a single-dataset test, please refer to the configs.py file for additional parameters. Then, execute the following command:

bash train.py

• For a cross-dataset test, please refer to the configs.py file for additional parameters. Then, execute the following command:

bash train_cross_datast.sh

📊 Dataset

• The study generated 30 types of distorted images, of which 25 are identical to those in the KADID-10k dataset and can be obtained by running the 'dataset_generator.m' file in Matlab.
• The additional four types of distorted images, namely pink noise, contrast change, underexposure, and overexposure, can be generated by running the 'additional_dataset_generator.m' file.
• The lossy compression distorted images can be downloaded from this link.

Dataset has 6 million images and needs 3TB storage. Pre-trained models can be downloaded if needed.

⚙️ Model

The pre-trained DPM models can be downloaded from Google Drive or Baidu Cloud and save it to folder 'pretrained_model'.

📑 Citation

If our research has been helpful to you, please consider citing our paper in your work.

@ARTICLE{vipnet2023_wang,
  author={Wang, Xiaoqi and Xiong, Jian and Lin, Weisi},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Multimedia}, 
  title={Visual Interaction Perceptual Network for Blind Image Quality Assessment}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={25},
  number={},
  pages={8958-8971},
  doi={10.1109/TMM.2023.3243683}}

💖 Acknowledgement

Thanks to the contributors of GitHub repositories HyperIQA and BoTNet, whose parts of the code I referenced while developing this project.