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In this paper, we propose a novel design of Human Visual System (HVS) response in a convolution filter form to decompose meaningful features that are closely tied with image sharpness level. No-reference (NR) Image sharpness assessment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Yueyang Zhang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

The unstructured and irregular nature of points poses a significant challenge for accurate point cloud quality assessment (PCQA), particularly in establishing accurate perceptual feature correspondence. To tackle this, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhang Chen , Shuai Wan , Yuezhe Zhang , Siyu Ren , Fuzheng Yang , Junhui Hou

Deep-feature-based perceptual similarity models have demonstrated strong alignment with human visual perception in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, most existing approaches operate at a single spatial scale, implicitly assuming that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Danling Kang , Xue-Hua Chen , Bin Liu , Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao

In recent years, deep neural networks have been utilized in a wide variety of applications including image generation. In particular, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to produce highly realistic pictures as part of tasks such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Hyunsuk Ko , Dae Yeol Lee , Seunghyun Cho , Alan C. Bovik

The latest advances in full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) involve unifying structure and texture similarity based on deep representations. The resulting Deep Image Structure and Texture Similarity (DISTS) metric, however, makes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Keyan Ding , Yi Liu , Xueyi Zou , Shiqi Wang , Kede Ma

This paper introduces a new benchmark for large-scale image similarity detection. This benchmark is used for the Image Similarity Challenge at NeurIPS'21 (ISC2021). The goal is to determine whether a query image is a modified copy of any…

The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments. Perceptual datasets gathered for this purpose have provided useful benchmarks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli

Medical image quality assessment (MIQA) is essential for reliable medical image analysis. While deep learning has shown promise in this field, current models could be misled by spurious correlations learned from data and struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Boyu Chen , Ameenat L. Solebo , Weiye Bao , Paul Taylor

Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma

Image similarity metrics play an important role in computer vision applications, as they are used in image processing, computer vision and machine learning. Furthermore, those metrics enable tasks such as image retrieval, object recognition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Safouane El Ghazouali , Umberto Michelucci , Yassin El Hillali , Hichem Nouira

Over the past few years, deep neural models have made considerable advances in image quality assessment (IQA). However, the underlying reasons for their success remain unclear, owing to the complex nature of deep neural networks. IQA aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Kirillov Alexey , Andrey Moskalenko , Dmitriy Vatolin

A novel multi-focus image fusion algorithm performed in spatial domain based on similarity characteristics is proposed incorporating with region segmentation. In this paper, a new similarity measure is developed based on the structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ya-Qiong Zhang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li

Semi-Supervised Instance Segmentation (SSIS) aims to leverage an amount of unlabeled data during training. Previous frameworks primarily utilized the RGB information of unlabeled images to generate pseudo-labels. However, such a mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xin Chen , Jie Hu , Xiawu Zheng , Jianghang Lin , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a core task in computer vision. Multimodal methods based on vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities in IQA tasks. To address the issues of excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yongkang Hou , Jiarun Song

The distinctiveness of image regions is widely used as the cue of saliency. Generally, the distinctiveness is computed according to the absolute difference of features. However, according to the image quality assessment (IQA) studies, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yang Li , Xuanqin Mou

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

For full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) using deep-learning approaches, the perceptual similarity score between a distorted image and a reference image is typically computed as a distance measure between features extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

Optical microscopy is one of the most widely used techniques in research studies for life sciences and biomedicine. These applications require reliable experimental pipelines to extract valuable knowledge from the measured samples and must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Elena Corbetta , Thomas Bocklitz

In recent years, Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) has become an indispensable part of the face recognition system to guarantee the stability and reliability of recognition performance in an unconstrained scenario. For this purpose, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fu-Zhao Ou , Xingyu Chen , Ruixin Zhang , Yuge Huang , Shaoxin Li , Jilin Li , Yong Li , Liujuan Cao , Yuan-Gen Wang

Optical microscopy contributes to the ever-increasing progress in biological and biomedical studies, as it allows the implementation of minimally invasive experimental pipelines to translate the data of measured samples into valuable…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-03 Elena Corbetta , Thomas Bocklitz