Activating Frequency and ViT for 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment without Reference

Deep learning-based quality assessments have significantly enhanced perceptual multimedia quality assessment, however it is still in the early stages for 3D visual data such as 3D point clouds (PCs). Due to the high volume of 3D-PCs, such quantities are frequently compressed for transmission and viewing, which may affect perceived quality. Therefore, we propose no-reference quality metric of a given 3D-PC. Comparing to existing methods that mostly focus on geometry or color aspects, we propose integrating frequency magnitudes as indicator of spatial degradation patterns caused by the compression. To map the input attributes to quality score, we use a light-weight hybrid deep model; combined of Deformable Convolutional Network (DCN) and Vision Transformers (ViT). Experiments are carried out on ICIP20 [1], PointXR [2] dataset, and a new big dataset called BASICS [3]. The results obtained show the superiority of our method when comparing with those of NR-PCQA the state-of-the-art and even some of FR-PCQA on PointXR. The implementation code can be found at: https://github.com/o-messai/3D-PCQA