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Efficiency and efficacy are desirable properties for any evaluation metric having to do with Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) imaging or with High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging. However, it is a daunting task to satisfy both properties simultaneously. On the one side, existing evaluation metrics like HDR-VDP 2.2 can accurately mimic the Human Visual System (HVS), but this typically comes at a very high computational cost. On the other side, computationally cheaper alternatives (e.g., PSNR, MSE, etc.) fail to capture many crucial aspects of the HVS. In this work, we present NoR-VDPNet++, a deep learning architecture for converting full-reference accurate metrics into no-reference metrics thus reducing the computational burden. We show NoR-VDPNet++ can be successfully employed in different application scenarios.