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      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010604</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub"></issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/J.Percept.Imaging.2021.4.1.010402</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2470-1173(20210118)2021:11L.104021;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ei_24701173_v2021n11_input/s3.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/ei/2021/00002021/00000011/art00015</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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        <article-title>FP-Nets for Blind Image Quality Assessment</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Grüning</surname>
            <given-names>Philipp</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Barth</surname>
            <given-names>Erhardt</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>18</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2021</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2021</volume>
      <issue>11</issue>
      <fpage>10402-1</fpage>
      <lpage>10402-13</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
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          <italic>Feature-Product networks (FP-nets) are a novel deep-network architecture inspired by principles of biological vision. These networks contain the so-called FP-blocks that learn two different filters for each input feature map, the outputs of which are then multiplied. Such an architecture
 is inspired by models of end-stopped neurons, which are common in cortical areas V1 and especially in V2. The authors here use FP-nets on three image quality assessment (IQA) benchmarks for blind IQA. They show that by using FP-nets, they can obtain networks that deliver state-of-the-art performance
 while being significantly more compact than competing models. A further improvement that they obtain is due to a simple attention mechanism. The good results that they report may be related to the fact that they employ bio-inspired design principles.</italic>
        </p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>bio-inspired networks</kwd>
        <kwd>deep learning</kwd>
        <kwd>image quality assessment</kwd>
        <kwd>compact networks</kwd>
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