# A No-reference Quality Assessment Metric for Point Cloud Based on Captured Video Sequences

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05054 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.05054/

## Key facts

- Cited by 24 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 9 Jun 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [A Closer Look at Spatiotemporal Convolutions for Action Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.11248/) (2017)
- [Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.09847/) (2018)
- [Quality Assessment of In-the-Wild Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.00375/) (2019)
- [A Deep Learning based No-reference Quality Assessment Model for UGC Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.14047/) (2022)
- [Inferring Point Cloud Quality via Graph Similarity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.00497/) (2020)
- [Point Cloud Quality Assessment: Dataset Construction and Learning-based No-Reference Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.11895/) (2020)
- [No-Reference Quality Assessment for 3D Colored Point Cloud and Mesh Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.02041/) (2021)
- [Deep Learning based Full-reference and No-reference Quality Assessment Models for Compressed UGC Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.01111/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 24 of 24)

- [MM-PCQA: Multi-Modal Learning for No-reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.00244/) (2022)
- [Advancing Zero-Shot Digital Human Quality Assessment through Text-Prompted Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.02808/) (2023)
- [Quality Assessment in the Era of Large Models: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.00031/) (2024)
- [Evaluating Point Cloud from Moving Camera Videos: A No-Reference Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.14085/) (2022)
- [GPA-Net:No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment with Multi-task Graph Convolutional Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.16478/) (2022)
- [Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment for in-the-Wild Computer Graphics Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.08050/) (2023)
- [GMS-3DQA: Projection-based Grid Mini-patch Sampling for 3D Model Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.05658/) (2023)
- [LMM-PCQA: Assisting Point Cloud Quality Assessment with LMM](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.18203/) (2024)
- [Contrastive Pre-Training with Multi-View Fusion for No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10066/) (2024)
- [Perceptual Quality Assessment for Digital Human Heads](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.09489/) (2022)
- [DDH-QA: A Dynamic Digital Humans Quality Assessment Database](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.12734/) (2022)
- [EEP-3DQA: Efficient and Effective Projection-based 3D Model Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.08715/) (2023)
- [Simple Baselines for Projection-based Full-reference and No-reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.17147/) (2023)
- [Stochasticity-aware No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.08926/) (2024)
- [PAME: Self-Supervised Masked Autoencoder for No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10061/) (2024)
- [Full reference point cloud quality assessment using support vector regression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.10520/) (2024)
- [DHQA-4D: Perceptual Quality Assessment of Dynamic 4D Digital Human](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.03874/) (2025)
- [Multi-Dimensional Quality Assessment for Text-to-3D Assets: Dataset and Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.16915/) (2025)
- [From Images to Point Clouds: An Efficient Solution for Cross-media Blind Quality Assessment without Annotated Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.13387/) (2025)
- [Point Cloud Compression and Objective Quality Assessment: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.22902/) (2025)
- [Perceptual Quality Assessment of Trisoup-Lifting Encoded 3D Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.06689/) (2024)
- [Differentiable Low-computation Global Correlation Loss for Monotonicity Evaluation in Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.15485/) (2025)
- [Point Cloud Quality Assessment Using the Perceptual Clustering Weighted Graph (PCW-Graph) and Attention Fusion Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.04081/) (2025)
- [DAL-PCQA: Enabling Distortion-Level and Language-Driven Reasoning for Point Cloud Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.07938/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Point cloud is one of the most widely used digital formats of 3D models, the visual quality of which is quite sensitive to distortions such as downsampling, noise, and compression. To tackle the challenge of point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) in scenarios where reference is not available, we propose a no-reference quality assessment metric for colored point cloud based on captured video sequences. Specifically, three video sequences are obtained by rotating the camera around the point cloud through three specific orbits. The video sequences not only contain the static views but also include the multi-frame temporal information, which greatly helps understand the human perception of the point clouds. Then we modify the ResNet3D as the feature extraction model to learn the correlation between the capture videos and corresponding subjective quality scores. The experimental results show that our method outperforms most of the state-of-the-art full-reference and no-reference PCQA metrics, which validates the effectiveness of the proposed method.