Title: Learning to Rank Retargeted Images
Citation
Chen Y, Liu Y, Lai Y (2017). Learning to Rank Retargeted Images. Cardiff University. https://doi.org/10.17035/d.2017.0033306559
Access Rights: Cardiff University Software Licence
Access Method: Click to email a request for this data to opendata@cardiff.ac.uk
Dataset Details
Publisher: Cardiff University
Date (year) of data becoming publicly available: 2017
Data format: .m
Software Required: MATLAB
Estimated total storage size of dataset: Less than 100 megabytes
DOI : 10.17035/d.2017.0033306559
DOI URL: http://doi.org/10.17035/d.2017.0033306559
Image retargeting techniques that adjust images into different sizes have attracted much attention recently. Objective quality assessment (OQA) of image retargeting results is often desired to automatically select the best results. Existing OQA methods output an absolute score for each retargeted image and use these scores to compare different results. Observing that it is challenging even for human subjects to give consistent scores for retargeting results of different source images, in this paper we propose a learning-based OQA method that predicts the ranking of a set of retargeted images with the same source image. We show that this more manageable task helps achieve more consistent prediction to human preference and is sufficient for most application scenarios. To compute the ranking, we propose a simple yet efficient machine learning framework that uses a General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) to model a combination of seven elaborate OQA metrics. We then propose a simple scheme to transform the relative scores output from GRNN into a global ranking. We train our GRNN model using human preference data collected in the elaborate RetargetMe benchmark and evaluate our method based on the subjective study in RetargetMe. Moreover, we introduce a further subjective benchmark to evaluate the generalizability of different OQA methods. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms eight representative OQA methods in ranking prediction and has better generalizability to different datasets. The data contains MATLAB code to support the research presented at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 21-26 July 2017.
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