no code implementations • 4 May 2023 • Mu Li, Kanglong Fan, Kede Ma
Predicting human scanpaths when exploring panoramic videos is a challenging task due to the spherical geometry and the multimodality of the input, and the inherent uncertainty and diversity of the output.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2023 • Ronghuan Wu, Wanchao Su, Kede Ma, Jing Liao
More importantly, we demonstrate the flexibility of IconShop with multiple novel icon synthesis tasks, including icon editing, icon interpolation, icon semantic combination, and icon design auto-suggestion.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Haoyu Chen, Zhihua Wang, Yang Yang, Qilin Sun, Kede Ma
Most well-established and widely used color difference (CD) metrics are handcrafted and subject-calibrated against uniformly colored patches, which do not generalize well to photographic images characterized by natural scene complexities.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Weixia Zhang, Guangtao Zhai, Ying WEI, Xiaokang Yang, Kede Ma
We aim at advancing blind image quality assessment (BIQA), which predicts the human perception of image quality without any reference information.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Wei Shang, Dongwei Ren, Yi Yang, Hongzhi Zhang, Kede Ma, WangMeng Zuo
Moreover, on the seemingly implausible x16 interpolation task, our method outperforms existing methods by more than 1. 5 dB in terms of PSNR.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2022 • Haoyu Chen, Linqi Song, Zhenxing Qian, Xinpeng Zhang, Kede Ma
As an instantiation, we adopt a SinGAN, a pyramid of generative adversarial networks (GANs), to learn the patch distribution of one cover image.
1 code implementation • 3 Oct 2022 • Weixia Zhang, Dingquan Li, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai, Guodong Guo, Xiaokang Yang, Kede Ma
No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to quantify how humans perceive visual distortions of digital images without access to their undistorted references.
no code implementations • 29 Jul 2022 • Peibei Cao, Dingquan Li, Kede Ma
Learning-based image quality assessment (IQA) has made remarkable progress in the past decade, but nearly all consider the two key components - model and data - in relative isolation.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2022 • Peibei Cao, Chenyang Le, Yuming Fang, Kede Ma
In Stage two, the input HDR image is self-calibrated to compute the final LDR image.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2022 • Yuming Fang, Yiru Yao, Xiangjie Sui, Kede Ma
Virtual reality (VR) videos (typically in the form of 360$^\circ$ videos) have gained increasing attention due to the fast development of VR technologies and the remarkable popularization of consumer-grade 360$^\circ$ cameras and displays.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2022 • Zhihua Wang, Keshuo Xu, Yang Yang, Jianlei Dong, Shuhang Gu, Lihao Xu, Yuming Fang, Kede Ma
Measuring perceptual color differences (CDs) is of great importance in modern smartphone photography.
1 code implementation • 20 Jan 2022 • Xiangyang Zhu, Kede Ma, Wufeng Xue
First, the basis functions of SPT match the anatomical structure of the LV as well as the geometric characteristics of the estimated indices.
1 code implementation • 25 Dec 2021 • Mu Li, Kede Ma, Jinxing Li, David Zhang
We first describe parametric pseudocylindrical representation as a generalization of common pseudocylindrical map projections.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2021 • Kede Ma, Yuming Fang
This tutorial provides the audience with the basic theories, methodologies, and current progresses of image quality assessment (IQA).
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2021 • Keyan Ding, Yi Liu, Xueyi Zou, Shiqi Wang, Kede Ma
The latest advances in full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) involve unifying structure and texture similarity based on deep representations.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2021 • Chenyang Le, Jiebin Yan, Yuming Fang, Kede Ma
We describe a deep high-dynamic-range (HDR) image tone mapping operator that is computationally efficient and perceptually optimized.
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2021 • Weixia Zhang, Kede Ma, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaokang Yang
In this paper, we present a simple yet effective continual learning method for BIQA with improved quality prediction accuracy, plasticity-stability trade-off, and task-order/-length robustness.
1 code implementation • 26 Jun 2021 • Zhihua Wang, Dingquan Li, Kede Ma
Ensemble methods are generally regarded to be better than a single model if the base learners are deemed to be "accurate" and "diverse."
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Zhihua Wang, Haotao Wang, Tianlong Chen, Zhangyang Wang, Kede Ma
Recently, the group maximum differentiation competition (gMAD) has been used to improve blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models, with the help of full-reference metrics.
1 code implementation • 27 Feb 2021 • Jiebin Yan, Yu Zhong, Yuming Fang, Zhangyang Wang, Kede Ma
A natural question then arises: Does the superior performance on the closed (and frequently re-used) test sets transfer to the open visual world with unconstrained variations?
1 code implementation • 19 Feb 2021 • Weixia Zhang, Dingquan Li, Chao Ma, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaokang Yang, Kede Ma
In this paper, we formulate continual learning for BIQA, where a model learns continually from a stream of IQA datasets, building on what was learned from previously seen data.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Haotao Wang, Tianlong Chen, Zhangyang Wang, Kede Ma
Image segmentation lays the foundation for many high-stakes vision applications such as autonomous driving and medical image analysis.
1 code implementation • 28 May 2020 • Weixia Zhang, Kede Ma, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaokang Yang
Nevertheless, due to the distributional shift between images simulated in the laboratory and captured in the wild, models trained on databases with synthetic distortions remain particularly weak at handling realistic distortions (and vice versa).
2 code implementations • 21 May 2020 • Xiangjie Sui, Kede Ma, Yiru Yao, Yuming Fang
We first carry out a psychophysical experiment to investigate the interplay among the VR viewing conditions, the user viewing behaviors, and the perceived quality of 360{\deg} images.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2020 • Keyan Ding, Kede Ma, Shiqi Wang, Eero P. Simoncelli
The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments.
2 code implementations • 16 Apr 2020 • Keyan Ding, Kede Ma, Shiqi Wang, Eero P. Simoncelli
Objective measures of image quality generally operate by comparing pixels of a "degraded" image to those of the original.
no code implementations • 8 Mar 2020 • Zhihua Wang, Kede Ma
We then seek pairs of images by comparing the baseline model with a set of full-reference IQA methods in gMAD.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2020 • Haotao Wang, Tianlong Chen, Zhangyang Wang, Kede Ma
On the other hand, the trained classifiers have traditionally been evaluated on small and fixed sets of test images, which are deemed to be extremely sparsely distributed in the space of all natural images.
2 code implementations • 5 Jul 2019 • Weixia Zhang, Kede Ma, Jia Yan, Dexiang Deng, Zhou Wang
We propose a deep bilinear model for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) that handles both synthetic and authentic distortions.
Ranked #2 on
Video Quality Assessment
on MSU NR VQA Database
1 code implementation • 3 Jul 2019 • Keyan Ding, Kede Ma, Shiqi Wang
The goal of research in automatic image popularity assessment (IPA) is to develop computational models that can accurately predict the potential of a social image to go viral on the Internet.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2019 • Weixia Zhang, Kede Ma, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaokang Yang
Computational models for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) are typically trained in well-controlled laboratory environments with limited generalizability to realistically distorted images.
2 code implementations • 24 Jun 2019 • Mu Li, Kede Ma, Jane You, David Zhang, WangMeng Zuo
For the former, we directly apply a CCN to the binarized representation of an image to compute the Bernoulli distribution of each code for entropy estimation.
no code implementations • 13 Apr 2019 • Kede Ma, Wentao Liu, Tongliang Liu, Zhou Wang, DaCheng Tao
One of the biggest challenges in learning BIQA models is the conflict between the gigantic image space (which is in the dimension of the number of image pixels) and the extremely limited reliable ground truth data for training.
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2016 • Kede Ma, Huan Fu, Tongliang Liu, Zhou Wang, DaCheng Tao
The human visual system excels at detecting local blur of visual images, but the underlying mechanism is not well understood.
no code implementations • CVPR 2016 • Kede Ma, Qingbo Wu, Zhou Wang, Zhengfang Duanmu, Hongwei Yong, Hongliang Li, Lei Zhang
We first build a database that contains 4, 744 source natural images, together with 94, 880 distorted images created from them.