In this work, we tackle the problem of estimating a camera capability to preserve fine texture details at a given lighting condition. Importantly, our texture preservation measurement should coincide with human perception. Consequently, we formulate our problem as a regression one and we introduce a deep convolutional network to estimate texture quality score. At training time, we use ground-truth quality scores provided by expert human annotators in order to obtain a subjective quality measure. In addition, we propose a region selection method to identify the image regions that are better suited at measuring perceptual quality. Finally, our experimental evaluation shows that our learning-based approach outperforms existing methods and that our region selection algorithm consistently improves the quality estimation.
@article{arxiv.2009.09981,
title = {DR2S : Deep Regression with Region Selection for Camera Quality Evaluation},
author = {Marcelin Tworski and Stéphane Lathuilière and Salim Belkarfa and Attilio Fiandrotti and Marco Cagnazzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09981},
year = {2020}
}