Siamese transformer network for predicting image quality of images and training thereof

An electronic device comprising:

• at least one processing device configured to:
• obtain a specified image;
• identify a reference image and a corresponding reference image label;
• input the specified image and the reference image to a Siamese transformer network trained to predict an image quality difference between an input image pair;
• predict, using the Siamese transformer network, an image quality difference between the specified image and the reference image;
• and
• add the corresponding reference image label to the predicted image quality difference to obtain an image quality score of the specified image.

A non-transitory machine readable medium containing instructions that when executed cause at least one processor of an electronic device to:

• obtain a specified image;
• identify a reference image and a corresponding reference image label;
• input the specified image and the reference image to a Siamese transformer network trained to predict an image quality difference between an input image pair;
• predict, using the Siamese transformer network, an image quality difference between the specified image and the reference image;
• and
• add the corresponding reference image label to the predicted image quality difference to obtain an image quality score of the specified image.