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We propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) approach that learns from rankings (RankIQA). To address the problem of limited IQA dataset size, we train a Siamese Network to rank images in terms of image quality by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Nowadays, most existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models 1) are developed for synthetically-distorted images and often generalize poorly to authentic ones; 2) heavily rely on human ratings, which are prohibitively…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhihua Wang , Zhi-Ri Tang , Jianguo Zhang , Yuming Fang

Image quality assessment (IQA) is crucial in the evaluation stage of novel algorithms operating on images, including traditional and machine learning based methods. Due to the lack of available quality-rated medical images, most commonly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Anna Breger , Janek Gröhl , Clemens Karner , Thomas R Else , Ian Selby , Tom Rix , Lara-Sophie Witt , Merle Duchêne , Jonathan Weir-McCall , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, we address the well-known image quality assessment problem but in contrast from existing approaches that predict image quality independently for every images, we propose to jointly model different images depicting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Marcelin Tworski , Stéphane Lathuilière

In object recognition applications, object images usually appear with different quality levels. Practically, it is very important to indicate object image qualities for better application performance, e.g. filtering out low-quality object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Jing Lu , Baorui Zou , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Shuigeng Zhou , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Full-Reference image quality assessment (FR IQA) is important for image compression, restoration and generative modeling, yet current neural metrics remain slow and vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. We present BiRQA, a compact FR IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Aleksandr Gushchin , Dmitriy S. Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

Image quality plays an important role in the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) that have been widely shown to exhibit sensitivity to changes in imaging conditions. Conventional image quality assessment (IQA) seeks to measure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

With the development of rendering techniques, computer graphics generated images (CGIs) have been widely used in practical application scenarios such as architecture design, video games, simulators, movies, etc. Different from natural scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tao Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

With the development of multimedia technology, Augmented Reality (AR) has become a promising next-generation mobile platform. The primary value of AR is to promote the fusion of digital contents and real-world environments, however, studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Yucheng Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Patrick Le Callet

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models aim to predict perceptual image quality in alignment with human judgments. No-Reference (NR) IQA remains particularly challenging due to the absence of a reference image. While deep learning has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Rajesh Sureddi , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

Subjective perceptual image quality can be assessed in lab studies by human observers. Objective image quality assessment (IQA) refers to algorithms for estimation of the mean subjective quality ratings. Many such methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Markus Wagner , Hanhe Lin , Shujun Li , Dietmar Saupe

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to assess the recognition utility of face samples and is essential for reliable face recognition (FR) systems. Existing approaches require computationally expensive procedures such as multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guray Ozgur , Tahar Chettaoui , Eduarda Caldeira , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Andrea Atzori , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Recent years have witnessed remarkable achievements in perceptual image restoration (IR), creating an urgent demand for accurate image quality assessment (IQA), which is essential for both performance comparison and algorithm optimization.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiangfei Sheng , Xiaofeng Pan , Zhichao Yang , Pengfei Chen , Leida Li

A successful approach to image quality assessment involves comparing the structural information between a distorted and its reference image. However, extracting structural information that is perceptually important to our visual system is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Tanaya Guha , Ehsan Nezhadarya , Rabab K Ward

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and widespread use of smartphones have resulted in an exponential growth of image data, both real (camera-captured) and virtual (AI-generated). This surge underscores the critical need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhiqiang Lao , Heather Yu

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) constitutes a fundamental task within the field of computer vision, yet it remains an unresolved challenge, owing to the intricate distortion conditions, diverse image contents, and limited availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Kangmin Xu , Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Chaofeng Chen , Haoning Wu , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Omnidirectional image quality assessment (OIQA) aims to predict the perceptual quality of omnidirectional images that cover the whole 180$\times$360$^{\circ}$ viewing range of the visual environment. Here we propose a blind/no-reference…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

Existing face restoration models have relied on general assessment metrics that do not consider the characteristics of facial regions. Recent works have therefore assessed their methods using human studies, which is not scalable and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Byungho Jo , Donghyeon Cho , In Kyu Park , Sungeun Hong

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

Learning-based image quality assessment (IQA) has made remarkable progress in the past decade, but nearly all consider the two key components -- model and data -- in isolation. Specifically, model-centric IQA focuses on developing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Peibei Cao , Dingquan Li , Kede Ma