
arXiv: 2208.14818
Image Quality Assessment (IQA) metrics are widely used to quantitatively estimate the extent of image degradation following some forming, restoring, transforming, or enhancing algorithms. We present PyTorch Image Quality (PIQ), a usability-centric library that contains the most popular modern IQA algorithms, guaranteed to be correctly implemented according to their original propositions and thoroughly verified. In this paper, we detail the principles behind the foundation of the library, describe the evaluation strategy that makes it reliable, provide the benchmarks that showcase the performance-time trade-offs, and underline the benefits of GPU acceleration given the library is used within the PyTorch backend. PyTorch Image Quality is an open source software: https://github.com/photosynthesis-team/piq/.
20 pages with appendix; 4 Figures
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Image and Video Processing (eess.IV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Image and Video Processing (eess.IV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
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