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Evaluating the quality of images generated by generative adversarial networks (GANs) is still an open problem. Metrics such as Inception Score(IS) and Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) are limited in evaluating a single image, making trouble for researchers’ results presentation and practical application. In this context, an end-to-end image quality assessment (IQA) neural network shows excellent promise for a single generated image quality evaluation. However, generated image datasets with quality labels are too rare to train an efficient model. To handle this problem, this paper proposes a semi-supervised learning strategy to evaluate the quality of a single generated image. Firstly, a conditional GAN (CGAN) is employed to produce large numbers of generated-image samples, while the input conditions are regarded as the quality label. Secondly, these samples are fed into an image quality regression neural network to train a raw quality assessment model. Finally, a small number of labeled samples are used to fine-tune the model. In the experiments, this paper utilizes FID to prove our method’s efficiency indirectly. The value of FID decreased by 3.32 on average after we removed 40% of low-quality images. It shows that our method can not only reasonably evaluate the result of the overall generated image but also accurately evaluate the single generated image.
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This research is supported by Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No. 2020YFS0307, No. 2020YFG0430, No. 2019YFS0146), Mianyang Science and Technology Program (2020YFZJ016).
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Zhang, X. et al. (2021). Semi-supervised Learning with Conditional GANs for Blind Generated Image Quality Assessment. In: Mantoro, T., Lee, M., Ayu, M.A., Wong, K.W., Hidayanto, A.N. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92238-2_40
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