Progressive Feature Fusion Network for Enhancing Image Quality
  Assessment
Kaiqun Wu Xiaoling Jiang Rui Yu Yonggang Luo Tian Jiang Xi Wu Peng Wei
Image compression has been applied in the fields of image storage and video
broadcasting. However, it's formidably tough to distinguish the subtle quality
differences between those distorted images generated by different algorithms.
In this paper, we propose a new image quality assessment framework to decide
which image is better in an image group. To capture the subtle differences, a
fine-grained network is adopted to acquire multi-scale features. Subsequently,
we design a cross subtract block for separating and gathering the information
within positive and negative image pairs. Enabling image comparison in feature
space. After that, a progressive feature fusion block is designed, which fuses
multi-scale features in a novel progressive way. Hierarchical spatial 2D
features can thus be processed gradually. Experimental results show that
compared with the current mainstream image quality assessment methods, the
proposed network can achieve more accurate image quality assessment and ranks
second in the benchmark of CLIC in the image perceptual model track.