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Automated Image and Video Quality Assessment for Computational Video Editing
We study non-reference image and video quality assessment methods, which are of great importance for computational video editing. The object of our work is image quality assessment (IQA) applicable for fast and robust frame-by-frame multipurpose video quality assessment (VQA) for short videos.
We present a complex framework for assessing the quality of images and videos. The scoring process consists of several parallel steps of metric collection with final score aggregation step. Most of the individual scoring models are based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). The framework can be flexibly extended or reduced by adding or removing these steps. Using Deep CNN-Based Blind Image Quality Predictor (DIQA) as a baseline for IQA, we proposed improvements based on two patching strategies, such as uniform patching and object-based patching, and add intelligent pre-training step with distortion classification.
We evaluated our model on three IQA benchmark image datasets (LIVE, TID2008, and TID2013) and manually collected short YouTube videos. We also consider interesting for automated video editing metrics used for video scoring based on the scale of a scene, face presence in frame and compliance of the shot transitions with the shooting rules. The results of this work are applicable to the development of intelligent video and image processing systems.