Full-reference (FR) point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) has achieved impressive progress in recent years. However, in many cases, obtaining the reference point cloud is difficult, so the no-reference (NR) methods have become a research hotspot. Few researches about NR objective quality metrics are conducted due to the lack of a large-scale subjective point cloud dataset. Besides, the distinctive property of the point cloud format makes it infeasible to apply blind image quality assessment (IQA) methods directly to predict the quality scores of point clouds. In this paper, we establish a large-scale PCQA dataset, which includes 104 reference point clouds and more than 24,000 distorted point clouds. In the established dataset, each reference point cloud is augmented with 33 types of impairments (e.g., Gaussian noise, contrast distortion, geometry noise, local loss, and compression loss) at 7 different distortion levels. Besides, inspired by the hierarchical perception system and considering the intrinsic attributes of point clouds, an end-to-end sparse convolutional neural network (CNN) is designed to accurately estimate the subjective quality. We conduct several experiments to evaluate the performance of the proposed network. The results demonstrate that the proposed network has reliable performance. The dataset presented in this work will be publicly accessible at http://smt.sjtu.edu.cn.
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