Hierarchical Learning-Guided human motion quality assessment in big data environment

Abstract

Image information may be distorted during acquisition, processing, compression, and transmission. It is necessary to propose an intelligent image quality assessment model toward big data environment to quantify the degree of distortion of the image. This paper proposes a quality assessment model for human motion images. In complex scenes, the human body's action posture can be taken as an important feature point. Usually, in different scenes, the parts that affect the quality of the human body's posture are different. In other words, the weights of feature points that affect quality are different in different scenarios. However, due to the categorization of human movements, we can learn the quality assessment methods of different types of movements through sample training. Inspired by feature learning in the field of machine learning, we propose a hierarchical quality learning approach. We cast quality assessment as quality feature learning and layer by layer. The hierarchical quality learning method is based on deep reinforcement learning. The key part is that the method focuses on the region that containing more information on the features of the quality and enlarges the region layer by layer. Finally, we can determine the part of the body that affects the quality assessment. We compare this method with the subjective quality assessment results of the human observers and find that the proposed method achieves effective performance in big data environment to evaluate human motion quality.