Binocular Visual Mechanism Guided No-Reference Stereoscopic Image Quality Assessment Considering Spatial Saliency

Abstract

In recent years, with the popularization of 3D technology, stereoscopic image quality assessment (SIQA) has attracted extensive attention. In this paper, we propose a two-stage binocular fusion network for SIQA, which takes binocular fusion, binocular rivalry and binocular suppression into account to imitate the complex binocular visual mechanism in the human brain. Besides, to extract spatial saliency features of the left view, the right view, and the fusion view, saliency generating layers (SGLs) are applied in the network. The SGL apply multi-scale dilated convolution to emphasize essential spatial information of the input features. Experimental results on four public stereoscopic image databases demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art SIQA methods on both symmetrical and asymmetrical distortion stereoscopic images.