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Which implementation details (resizing, JPEG, quantization, data_range, feature layer) are documented to change image-quality metric values?

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The clean-fid authors report that resizing FFHQ with non-antialiased bicubic implementations (OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow) yields FID of 6 or more against PIL-bicubic, while other PIL filters stay at 0.75 or below, and that JPEG compression strongly shifts FID; pytorch-fid lets users pick Inception feature layers (64/192/768/2048 dims, default 2048) whose scores are not comparable. Component terms differ: clean-fid code MIT, its Inception wrapper derived from Apache-2.0 pytorch-fid, the Inception-v3 weights originally Apache-2.0 via TensorFlow Models. Curator qualifications: Paper v3 (S11) fetched but not read in detail; figures cited from the README. PSNR ValueError behaviour (E5) not re-read. Values are author-reported, not reproduced. README/paper text only; no metric computed; no Inception weights downloaded. Limitations: One dataset (FFHQ) in the reported comparison. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.11222v3",
      "note": "GaParmar/clean-fid README at e88c4d62, lines 56-73, 481-487; mseitzer/pytorch-fid README at b9c18118, lines 14, 41-56, 81-83; scikit-image SSIM notes (as in CA-B137)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/blob/ee0a7a3ebd9ac8c2602f40e55bc015a3c8a81ae8/src/skimage/metrics/_structural_similarity.py",
      "note": "GaParmar/clean-fid README at e88c4d62, lines 56-73, 481-487; mseitzer/pytorch-fid README at b9c18118, lines 14, 41-56, 81-83; scikit-image SSIM notes (as in CA-B137)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/blob/ee0a7a3ebd9ac8c2602f40e55bc015a3c8a81ae8/src/skimage/metrics/simple_metrics.py",
      "note": "GaParmar/clean-fid README at e88c4d62, lines 56-73, 481-487; mseitzer/pytorch-fid README at b9c18118, lines 14, 41-56, 81-83; scikit-image SSIM notes (as in CA-B137)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/mseitzer/pytorch-fid/blob/b9c18118d082cbd263c1b8963fc4221dc1cbb659/README.md",
      "note": "GaParmar/clean-fid README at e88c4d62, lines 56-73, 481-487; mseitzer/pytorch-fid README at b9c18118, lines 14, 41-56, 81-83; scikit-image SSIM notes (as in CA-B137)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/GaParmar/clean-fid/blob/e88c4d6269a4bbf04c04deeb578475b57719acee/README.md",
      "note": "GaParmar/clean-fid README at e88c4d62, lines 56-73, 481-487; mseitzer/pytorch-fid README at b9c18118, lines 14, 41-56, 81-83; scikit-image SSIM notes (as in CA-B137)"
    }
  ]
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The clean-fid authors report that resizing FFHQ with non-antialiased bicubic implementations (OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow) yields FID of 6 or more against PIL-bicubic, while other PIL filters stay at 0.75 or below, and that JPEG compression strongly shifts FID; pytorch-fid lets users pick Inception feature layers (64/192/768/2048 dims, default 2048) whose scores are not comparable. Component terms differ: clean-fid code MIT, its Inception wrapper derived from Apache-2.0 pytorch-fid, the Inception-v3 weights originally Apache-2.0 via TensorFlow Models. · locator: GaParmar/clean-fid README at e88c4d62, lines 56-73, 481-487; mseitzer/pytorch-fid README at b9c18118, lines 14, 41-56, 81-83; scikit-image SSIM notes (as in CA-B137) source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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