Cited by 187Generative Adversarial Networks and Image SynthesisImage and Video Quality AssessmentAdvanced Image Processing Techniques

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Learning to generate images with perceptual similarity metrics

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Snell, Jake, Ridgeway, Karl, Liao, Renjie, Roads, Brett D., Mozer, Michael C., Zemel, Richard S.·2017·2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)

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Deep networks are increasingly being applied to problems involving image synthesis, e.g., generating images from textual descriptions and reconstructing an input image from a compact representation. Supervised training of image-synthesis networks typically uses a pixel-wise loss (PL) to indicate the mismatch between a generated image and its corresponding target image. We propose instead to use a loss function that is better calibrated to human perceptual judgments of image quality: the multiscale structural-similarity score (MS-SSIM) [1]. Because MS-SSIM is differentiable, it is easily incorporated into gradient-descent learning. We compare the consequences of using MS-SSIM versus PL loss on training autoencoders. Human observers reliably prefer images synthesized by MS-SSIM-optimized models over those synthesized by PL-optimized models, for two distinct PL measures (L1and L2distances). We also explore the effect of training objective on image encoding and analyze conditions under which perceptually-optimized representations yield better performance on image classification. Finally, we demonstrate the superiority of perceptually-optimized networks for super-resolution imaging. We argue that significant advances can be made in modeling images through the use of training objectives that are well aligned to characteristics of human perception.

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Authors
Snell, J., Ridgeway, K., Liao, R., Roads, B. D., Mozer, M. C., & Zemel, R. S.
Affiliations
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
Venue
2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-09
Pages
4277-4281
ISSN
1522-4880 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2174358748
Cited by
186
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 7
FWCI
4.96
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
National Science Foundation (0542013, 1041755, 1461535)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Video Quality Assessment
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image Processing Techniques
Keywords
perceptual image quality, MS-SSIM, image generation, loss function design, autoencoder, image reconstruction, image classification, super-resolution, human perception

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