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In this paper, we proposed a human visual perception-based multi-exposure fusion image quality assessment method by considering the related perceptual features (i.e., color, dense scale invariant feature transform (DSIFT) and exposure) to measure the quality degradation accurately, which is closely related to the symmetry principle in human eyes. Firstly, the L1 norm of chrominance components between fused images and the designed pseudo images with the most severe color attenuation is calculated to measure the global color degradation, and the color saturation similarity is added to eliminate the influence of color over-saturation. Secondly, a set of distorted images under different exposure levels with strong edge information of fused image is constructed through the structural transfer, thus DSIFT similarity and DSIFT saturation are computed to measure the local detail loss and enhancement, respectively. Thirdly, Gauss exposure function is used to detect the over-exposure or under-exposure areas, and the above perceptual features are aggregated with random forest to predict the final quality of fused image. 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