TABLE 3.

The changes of PSNR and SSIM scores and the number of parameters with respect to the change of the number of dense blocks. * denotes the result which is significantly worse than the results by DCDenseNet with 6 blocks by Wilcoxon signed-rank test (p-values < 0.05).

# of blocks	# of parameters	PSNR-PVS	PSNR-WM	SSIM-PVS	SSIM-WM
1	29192	46.96±2.87*	43.84±2.4*	0.969±0.02*	0.976±0.01*
2	57608	47.01±3.34*	43.93±2.55*	0.967±0.02*	0.976±0.01*
3	86024	47.38±2.82*	44.27±2.26*	0.971±0.01*	0.978±0.01*
4	114440	47.38±2.91*	44.27±2.2	0.971±0.02*	0.978±0.01*
5	142856	47.52±2.95	44.19±2.22*	0.972±0.02	0.978±0.01*
6	171272	47.98±2.66	44.59±2.23	0.975±0.01	0.98±0.01
7	199688	47.40±2.79*	44.26±2.19	0.971±0.02*	0.978±0.01*
8	228104	47.12±2.79*	43.98±2.28*	0.969±0.02*	0.977±0.01*