A Multi-dimensional Aesthetic Quality Assessment Model for Mobile Game Images

Abstract

With the development of the game industry and the popularization of mobile devices, mobile games have played an important role in people's entertainment life. The aesthetic quality of mobile game images determines the users' Quality of Experience (QoE) to a certain extent. In this paper, we propose a multi-task deep learning based method to evaluate the aesthetic quality of mobile game images in multiple dimensions (i.e. the fineness, color harmony, colorfulness, and overall quality). Specifically, we first extract the quality-aware feature representation through integrating the features from all intermediate layers of the convolution neural network (CNN) and then map these quality-aware features into the quality score space in each dimension via the quality regressor module, which consists of three fully connected (FC) layers. The proposed model is trained through a multi-task learning manner, where the quality-aware features are shared by different quality dimension prediction tasks, and the multi-dimensional quality scores of each image are regressed by multiple quality regression modules respectively. We further introduce an uncertainty principle to balance the loss of each task in the training stage. The experimental results show that our proposed model achieves the best performance on the Multi-dimensional Aesthetic assessment for Mobile Game image database (MAMG) among state-of-the-art image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms and aesthetic quality assessment (AQA) algorithms.