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Recent years have witnessed the great success of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) in various task-specific scenarios, which present invariable distortion types and evaluation criteria. However, due to the rigid structure and learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Rui Ma , Qingbo Wu , King Ngi Ngan , Hongliang Li , Fanman Meng , Linfeng Xu

Lowering radiation dose per view and utilizing sparse views per scan are two common CT scan modes, albeit often leading to distorted images characterized by noise and streak artifacts. Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) strives to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is the task of predicting the visual quality of an image as perceived by a human observer. Current state-of-the-art techniques are based on deep representations trained in discriminative manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Simon Raviv , Gal Chechik

Traditional image quality assessment (IQA) methods rely on mean opinion scores (MOS), which are resource-intensive to collect and fail to provide interpretable, localized feedback on specific image distortions. We overcome these limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fadeel Sher Khan , Long N. Le , Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Seok-Jun Lee , Hamid R. Sheikh

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent IR methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved significant improvement in visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

We propose a deep bilinear model for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) that handles both synthetic and authentic distortions. Our model consists of two convolutional neural networks (CNN), each of which specializes in one distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Jia Yan , Dexiang Deng , Zhou Wang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) remains an unresolved challenge in computer vision due to complex distortions, diverse image content, and limited data availability. Existing Blind IQA (BIQA) methods largely rely on extensive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xudong Li , Zihao Huang , Yan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Xiawu Zheng , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Humans assess image quality through a perception-reasoning cascade, integrating sensory cues with implicit reasoning to form self-consistent judgments. In this work, we investigate how a model can acquire both human-like and self-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuan Li , Yahan Yu , Youyuan Lin , Yong-Hao Yang , Chenhui Chu , Shin'ya Nishida

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is an essential task that estimates the perceptual quality of images without reference. While many BIQA methods employ deep neural networks (DNNs) and incorporate saliency detectors to enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Current no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models for enhanced images often struggle to generalize, as they tend to overfit to the distinct patterns of specific enhancement algorithms rather than evaluating genuine perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shiqi Gao , Kang Fu , Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms evaluate the perceptual quality of an image using evaluation scores that assess the similarity or difference between two images. We propose a new low-level feature based IQA technique, which applies…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Navaneeth K. Kottayil , Irene Cheng , Frederic Dufaux , Anup Basu

Image Quality Assessment algorithms predict a quality score for a pristine or distorted input image, such that it correlates with human opinion. Traditional methods required a non-distorted "reference" version of the input image to compare…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Subhayan Mukherjee , Giuseppe Valenzise , Irene Cheng

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with reference images have achieved great success by imitating the human vision system, in which the image quality is effectively assessed by comparing the query image with its pristine reference image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Xiawu Zheng , Runze Hu , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Yan Zhang , Rongrong Ji

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) based on human subjective preferences has undergone extensive research in the past decades. However, with the development of communication protocols, the visual data consumption volume of machines has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chunyi Li , Yuan Tian , Xiaoyue Ling , Zicheng Zhang , Haodong Duan , Haoning Wu , Ziheng Jia , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guo Lu , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean Ponce

Deep learning-based methods have significantly influenced the blind image quality assessment (BIQA) field, however, these methods often require training using large amounts of human rating data. In contrast, traditional knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhangkai Ni , Yue Liu , Keyan Ding , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Shiqi Wang

Image quality assessment (IQA) forms a natural and often straightforward undertaking for humans, yet effective automation of the task remains highly challenging. Recent metrics from the deep learning community commonly compare image pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 William Thong , Jose Costa Pereira , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

With technology for digital photography and high resolution displays rapidly evolving and gaining popularity, there is a growing demand for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models for high resolution images. Unfortunately, the publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Huang Huang , Qiang Wan , Jari Korhonen

No reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a task to estimate the perceptual quality of an image without its corresponding original image. It is even more difficult to perform this task in a zero-shot manner, i.e., without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Takamichi Miyata

Scientific images fundamentally differ from natural and AI-generated images in that they encode structured domain knowledge rather than merely depict visual scenes. Assessing their quality therefore requires evaluating not only perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenzhe Li , Liang Chen , Junying Wang , Yijing Guo , Ye Shen , Farong Wen , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Guangtao Zhai