No-reference image quality assessment focusing on human facial region

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Highlights：

• The importance of focusing on face regions in images for development of a IQA metric is analyzed.

• A new IQA framework is presented, which uses the face detection technic for IQA.

• The proposed metric provides good performance on six benchmark IQA databases.

摘要

•The importance of focusing on face regions in images for development of a IQA metric is analyzed.•A new IQA framework is presented, which uses the face detection technic for IQA.•The proposed metric provides good performance on six benchmark IQA databases.

论文关键词：Image quality assessment,No-reference,Facial region,Face detection

论文评审过程：Received 28 May 2018, Revised 29 April 2019, Accepted 22 May 2019, Available online 10 June 2019, Version of Record 20 June 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2019.05.011