From 24eca1d826ba7d059d86fdad60e2b04e0390419c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xintao Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:52:51 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] reference to the PIRM18-SR Chanllenge report --- QA.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/QA.md b/QA.md index fafbc3f..1a91bca 100644 --- a/QA.md +++ b/QA.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ First, the released ESRGAN model in the GitHub (`RRDB_ESRGAN_x4.pth`) is **diffe We found that the lower perceptual index does not always guarantee a better visual quality. The aims for the competition and our ESRGAN work will be a bit different. We think the aim for the competition is the lower perceptual index and the aim for our ESRGAN work is the better visual quality. +> More analyses can be found in Sec 4.1 and Sec 5 in [PIRM18-SR Chanllenge report](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.07517.pdf). +> It points out that PI (perceptual index) is well correlated with the human-opinion-scores on a coarse scale, but it is not always well-correlated with these scores on a finer scale. This highlights the urgent need for better perceptual quality metrics.) Therefore, in the PIRM18-SR Challenge competition, we used several tricks for the best perceptual index (see Section 4.5 in the [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00219)).