No-Reference Stereoscopic Image Quality Assessment Considering Multi-loss Constraints

In this paper, a three-channel convolutional neural network (CNN) constrained by multiple loss functions is designed for stereoscopic image quality assessment (SIQA). Given that both monocular and binocular information are crucial for SIQA, we take the patches of left images, right images and difference images as the inputs of the three channels respectively. Since using the ground truth as the labels of image patches cannot accurately characterize their quality, we propose to individually label each image patch to preserve the quality difference among different regions and views. Moreover, the multi-loss structure is adopted in the proposed method to consider both local features and global features simultaneously, which can constrain the feature learning from multiple perspectives. And the additional adaptive loss weights make the multi-loss network more flexible and universal. The experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to other existing SIQA methods with state-of-the-art performance.