Stochasticity-aware No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment
Stochasticity-aware No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment
Songlin Fan, Wei Gao, Zhineng Chen, Ge Li, Guoqing Liu, Qicheng Wang
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 4146-4154.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/462
The evolution of point cloud processing algorithms necessitates an accurate assessment for their quality. Previous works consistently regard point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) as a MOS regression problem and devise a deterministic mapping, ignoring the stochasticity in generating MOS from subjective tests. This work presents the first probabilistic architecture for no-reference PCQA, motivated by the labeling process of existing datasets. The proposed method can model the quality judging stochasticity of subjects through a tailored conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) and produces multiple intermediate quality ratings. These intermediate ratings simulate the judgments from different subjects and are then integrated into an accurate quality prediction, mimicking the generation process of a ground truth MOS. Specifically, our method incorporates a Prior Module, a Posterior Module, and a Quality Rating Generator, where the former two modules are introduced to model the judging stochasticity in subjective tests, while the latter is developed to generate diverse quality ratings. Extensive experiments indicate that our approach outperforms previous cutting-edge methods by a large margin and exhibits gratifying crossdataset robustness. Codes are available at https://git.openi.org.cn/OpenPointCloud/nrpcqa.
Keywords:
Humans and AI: HAI: Cognitive modeling
Computer Vision: CV: 3D computer vision
Computer Vision: CV: Low-level Vision
Computer Vision: CV: Machine learning for vision
