A novel spatial pooling method for 3D mesh quality assessment based on percentile weighting strategy

•We proposed a novel spatial pooling method for 3D mesh quality assessment based on percentile weighting strategy.•The percentile weighting method has a strong capability to emphasize the local regions with severe distortion of mesh.•We investigated the parameters of percentile weighting through empirical tests to determine the optimal and unified values.•Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our spatial pooling method and the superiority of our metric.