1. Dual-Stream Complex-Valued Convolutional Network for Authentic Dehazed Image Quality Assessment.
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Guan, Tuxin, Li, Chaofeng, Zheng, Yuhui, Wu, Xiaojun, and Bovik, Alan C.
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CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks , *PERCEPTUAL illusions , *PERCEPTUAL learning - Abstract
Effectively evaluating the perceptual quality of dehazed images remains an under-explored research issue. In this paper, we propose a no-reference complex-valued convolutional neural network (CV-CNN) model to conduct automatic dehazed image quality evaluation. Specifically, a novel CV-CNN is employed that exploits the advantages of complex-valued representations, achieving better generalization capability on perceptual feature learning than real-valued ones. To learn more discriminative features to analyze the perceptual quality of dehazed images, we design a dual-stream CV-CNN architecture. The dual-stream model comprises a distortion-sensitive stream that operates on the dehazed RGB image, and a haze-aware stream on a novel dark channel difference image. The distortion-sensitive stream accounts for perceptual distortion artifacts, while the haze-aware stream addresses the possible presence of residual haze. Experimental results on three publicly available dehazed image quality assessment (DQA) databases demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization of our proposed CV-CNN DQA model as compared to state-of-the-art no-reference image quality assessment algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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