PatchVQ

Patch-VQ: ‘Patching Up’ the Video Quality Problem

Please email yingzhenqiang at gmail dot com for any questions. Thank you!

Demo

Please follow this to test the Patch VQ model pretrained on the LSVQ database. Please follow this to test our Patch VQ model on your database.

Note

• Due to the breaking changes in fastai 2.0.18 --> 2.1, the code is incompatible with the latest fastai! Please make sure the following versions are installed:

  fastai 2.0.18
  fastcore 1.2.5
  torch 1.6.0
  torchvision 0.7.0
  

​ a new version is still work-in-progress. See here.

• To reproduce the results in the paper, make sure to use the pretrained weights provided here:
  • RoIPoolModel-fit.10.bs.120.pth for PaQ2PiQ (don't use weights from other sources)
  • fastai-r3d18_K_200ep.pth for resnet 3d (don't use pytorch builtin r3d_18)

Common Issues:

• NameError: name '_C' is not defined --> pip3 install Cython
• RuntimeError: Could not infer dtype of PILImage --> downgrade: pip install pillow==8.2
• AttributeError: module 'PIL.Image' has no attribute 'Resampling' --> check your fastai and fastcore version
• ImportError: cannot import name 'default_generator' from 'torch._C' (unknown location) --> pip install torch==1.6.0 torchvision==0.7.0

Download LSVQ database

Description

No-reference (NR) perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) is a complex, unsolved, and important problem to social and streaming media applications. Efficient and accurate video quality predictors are needed to monitor and guide the processing of billions of shared, often imperfect, user-generated content (UGC). Unfortunately, current NR models are limited in their prediction capabilities on real-world, "in-the-wild" UGC video data. To advance progress on this problem, we created the largest (by far) subjective video quality dataset, containing 39, 000 real-world distorted videos and 117, 000 space-time localized video patches ("v-patches"), and 5.5M human perceptual quality annotations. Using this, we created two unique NR-VQA models: (a) a local-to-global region-based NR VQA architecture (called PVQ) that learns to predict global video quality and achieves state-of-the-art performance on 3 UGC datasets, and (b) a first-of-a-kind space-time video quality mapping engine (called PVQ Mapper) that helps localize and visualize perceptual distortions in space and time. We will make the new database and prediction models available immediately following the review process.

Investigators

• Zhenqiang Ying (zqying@utexas.edu) -- Graduate Student, Dept. of ECE, UT Austin
• Maniratnam Mandal (mmandal@utexas.edu) -- Graduate Student, Dept. of ECE, UT Austin
• Deepti Ghadiyaram (deeptigp@fb.com), Facebook Inc.
• Alan Bovik (bovik@ece.utexas.edu) -- Professor, Dept. of ECE, UT Austin

Download

We are making the LSVQ Database available to the research community free of charge. If you use this database in your research, we kindly ask that you reference our papers listed below:

• Z. Ying, M. Mandal, D. Ghadiyaram and A.C. Bovik, "Patch-VQ: ‘Patching Up’ the Video Quality Problem," arXiv 2020.[paper]
• Z. Ying, M. Mandal, D. Ghadiyaram and A.C. Bovik, "LIVE Large-Scale Social Video Quality (LSVQ) Database", Online:https://github.com/baidut/PatchVQ, 2020.

Please fill THIS FORM to download our database.

1. follow 'download_from_internetarchive.ipynb' to download Internet archive videos
2. download YFCC videos from Box (The password will be sent to your email after you submit the request form.)
3. download label files (coordinates and scores).
   • labels_test_1080p.csv 1.05 MB
   • labels_train_test.csv 10.8 MB (is_test column denotes if a video is in the train set or the test set )
4. [optional] follow this crop patches from videos

Copyright Notice

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The following papers are to be cited in the bibliography whenever the database is used as:

• Z. Ying, M. Mandal, D. Ghadiyaram and A.C. Bovik, "Patch-VQ: ‘Patching Up’ the Video Quality Problem," arXiv 2020.[paper]
• Z. Ying, M. Mandal, D. Ghadiyaram and A.C. Bovik, "LIVE Large-Scale Social Video Quality (LSVQ) Database", Online:https://github.com/baidut/PatchVQ, 2020.

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