pmBQA: Projection-based Blind Point Cloud Quality Assessment via Multimodal Learning

With the increasing communication and storage of point cloud data, there is an urgent need for an effective objective method to measure the quality before and after processing. To address this difficulty, we propose a projection-based blind quality indicator via multimodal learning for point cloud data, which can perceive both geometric distortion and texture distortion by using four homogeneous modalities (i.e., texture, normal, depth and roughness). To fully exploit the multimodal information, we further develop a deformable convolutionbased alignment module and a graph-based feature fusion module, and investigate a graph node attention-based evaluation method to forecast the quality score. Extensive experimental results on three benchmark databases show that our method achieves more accurate evaluation performance in comparison with 12 competitive methods.