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Hierarchical Fusion and Joint Aggregation: A Multi-Level Feature Representation Method for AIGC Image Quality Assessment

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-07-24 v1

Abstract

The quality assessment of AI-generated content (AIGC) faces multi-dimensional challenges, that span from low-level visual perception to high-level semantic understanding. Existing methods generally rely on single-level visual features, limiting their ability to capture complex distortions in AIGC images. To address this limitation, a multi-level visual representation paradigm is proposed with three stages, namely multi-level feature extraction, hierarchical fusion, and joint aggregation. Based on this paradigm, two networks are developed. Specifically, the Multi-Level Global-Local Fusion Network (MGLF-Net) is designed for the perceptual quality assessment, extracting complementary local and global features via dual CNN and Transformer visual backbones. The Multi-Level Prompt-Embedded Fusion Network (MPEF-Net) targets Text-to-Image correspondence by embedding prompt semantics into the visual feature fusion process at each feature level. The fused multi-level features are then aggregated for final evaluation. Experiments on benchmarks demonstrate outstanding performance on both tasks, validating the effectiveness of the proposed multi-level visual assessment paradigm.

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@article{arxiv.2507.17182,
  title  = {Hierarchical Fusion and Joint Aggregation: A Multi-Level Feature Representation Method for AIGC Image Quality Assessment},
  author = {Linghe Meng and Jiarun Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17182},
  year   = {2025}
}
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