A ParaBoost Stereoscopic Image Quality Assessment (PBSIQA) System
This work addresses quality assessment for 3D content delivery systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing methods with a hybrid approach.
The authors tackled stereoscopic image quality assessment for 3D visual content delivery by proposing a ParaBoost system that classifies distortions and fuses scores, achieving improved performance compared to existing metrics in experiments.
The problem of stereoscopic image quality assessment, which finds applications in 3D visual content delivery such as 3DTV, is investigated in this work. Specifically, we propose a new ParaBoost (parallel-boosting) stereoscopic image quality assessment (PBSIQA) system. The system consists of two stages. In the first stage, various distortions are classified into a few types, and individual quality scorers targeting at a specific distortion type are developed. These scorers offer complementary performance in face of a database consisting of heterogeneous distortion types. In the second stage, scores from multiple quality scorers are fused to achieve the best overall performance, where the fuser is designed based on the parallel boosting idea borrowed from machine learning. Extensive experimental results are conducted to compare the performance of the proposed PBSIQA system with those of existing stereo image quality assessment (SIQA) metrics. The developed quality metric can serve as an objective function to optimize the performance of a 3D content delivery system.