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Face image quality is an important factor to enable high performance face recognition systems. Face quality assessment aims at estimating the suitability of a face image for recognition. Previous work proposed supervised solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Recent research has widely explored the problem of aesthetics assessment of images with generic content. However, few approaches have been specifically designed to predict the aesthetic quality of images containing human faces, which make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Raimondo Schettini

In the field of deep learning applied to face recognition, securing large-scale, high-quality datasets is vital for attaining precise and reliable results. However, amassing significant volumes of high-quality real data faces hurdles such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Omer Granoviter , Alexey Gruzdev , Vladimir Loginov , Max Kogan , Orly Zvitia

Face recognition has made significant progress in recent years due to deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). In many face recognition (FR) scenarios, face images are acquired from a sequence with huge intra-variations. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Baoyun Peng , Min Liu , Zhaoning Zhang , Kai Xu , Dongsheng Li

Face image quality plays a critical role in determining the accuracy and reliability of face verification systems, particularly in real-time screening applications such as surveillance, identity verification, and access control. Low-quality…

Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between visual images and their perceptual quality by human observers. IQA modeling plays a special bridging role between vision science and engineering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

In this paper we develop a Quality Assessment approach for face recognition based on deep learning. The method consists of a Convolutional Neural Network, FaceQnet, that is used to predict the suitability of a specific input image for face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Javier Hernandez-Ortega , Javier Galbally , Julian Fierrez , Rudolf Haraksim , Laurent Beslay

The goal of full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) is to predict the quality of an image as perceived by human observers with using its pristine, reference counterpart. In this study, we explore a novel, combined approach which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Domonkos Varga

In this paper we investigate into the problem of image quality assessment (IQA) and enhancement via machine learning. This issue has long attracted a wide range of attention in computational intelligence and image processing communities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ke Gu , Dacheng Tao , Junfei Qiao , Weisi Lin

Face image quality is an important factor in facial recognition systems as its verification and recognition accuracy is highly dependent on the quality of image presented. Rejecting low quality images can significantly increase the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Vishal Agarwal

A large portion of iris images captured in real world scenarios are poor quality due to the uncontrolled environment and the non-cooperative subject. To ensure that the recognition algorithm is not affected by low-quality images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Leyuan Wang , Kunbo Zhang , Min Ren , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun

We employ the face recognition technology developed in house at face.com to a well accepted benchmark and show that without any tuning we are able to considerably surpass state of the art results. Much of the improvement is concentrated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf

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

Face recognition (FR) systems have a growing effect on critical decision-making processes. Recent works have shown that FR solutions show strong performance differences based on the user's demographics. However, to enable a trustworthy FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Florian Kirchbuchner , Naser Damer , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Arjan Kuijper

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) estimates the utility of face images for automated face recognition (FR) systems. We propose in this work a novel approach to assess the quality of face images based on inspecting the required changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Image quality assessment (IQA) continues to garner great interest in the research community, particularly given the tremendous rise in consumer video capture and streaming. Despite significant research effort in IQA in the past few decades,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Prajna Paramita Dash , Akshaya Mishra , Alexander Wong

The quality of a face crop in an image is decided by many factors such as camera resolution, distance, and illumination condition. This makes the discrimination of face images with different qualities a challenging problem in realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Youzhe Song , Feng Wang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are employed in many practical image and video processing pipelines to reduce storage, minimize transmission costs, and improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) of millions of viewers. These models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Krishna Srikar Durbha , Asvin Kumar Venkataramanan , Rajesh Sureddi , Alan C. Bovik

We present a deep neural network-based approach to image quality assessment (IQA). The network is trained end-to-end and comprises ten convolutional layers and five pooling layers for feature extraction, and two fully connected layers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sebastian Bosse , Dominique Maniry , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek

Embodied AI has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is still mainly deployed in laboratories, with various distortions in the Real-world limiting its application. Traditionally, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods are applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Chunyi Li , Jiaohao Xiao , Jianbo Zhang , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Yuan Tian , Xiangyang Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Zhengxue Cheng , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai