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We introduce a novel Image Quality Assessment (IQA) dataset comprising 6073 UHD-1 (4K) images, annotated at a fixed width of 3840 pixels. Contrary to existing No-Reference (NR) IQA datasets, ours focuses on highly aesthetic photos of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Vlad Hosu , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Oliver Wiedemann , Daisuke Iso , Dietmar Saupe

In no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), the challenge of limited dataset sizes hampers the development of robust and generalizable models. Conventional methods address this issue by utilizing large datasets to extract rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Daekyu Kwon , Dongyoung Kim , Sehwan Ki , Younghyun Jo , Hyong-Euk Lee , Seon Joo Kim

The no-reference image quality assessment is a challenging domain that addresses estimating image quality without the original reference. We introduce an improved mechanism to extract local and non-local information from images via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Mohammed Alsaafin , Musab Alsheikh , Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Usman

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

Traditional Image Quality Assessment (IQA) metrics typically fall into one of two extremes: rigid, hand-crafted mathematical models or "black-box" deep learning architectures that completely lack interpretability. To bridge this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ruchika Gupta , Illya Bakurov , Nathan Haut , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is of great value in the workflow of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-based analysis. Blind IQA (BIQA) methods are especially required since high-quality reference MRI images are usually not available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Kehan Qi , Haoran Li , Chuyu Rong , Yu Gong , Cheng Li , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Objective image quality evaluation is a challenging task, which aims to measure the quality of a given image automatically. According to the availability of the reference images, there are Full-Reference and No-Reference IQA tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Chao Zeng , Sam Kwong

We present a no-reference video quality model and algorithm that delivers standout performance for High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos, which we call HDR-ChipQA. HDR videos represent wider ranges of luminances, details, and colors than Standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an active research area in the field of image processing. Most prior works focus on visual quality of natural images captured by cameras. In this paper, we explore visual quality of scanned documents,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Justin Yang , Peter Bauer , Todd Harris , Changhyung Lee , Hyeon Seok Seo , Jan P Allebach , Fengqing Zhu

The deep learning revolution has strongly impacted low-level image processing tasks such as style/domain transfer, enhancement/restoration, and visual quality assessments. Despite often being treated separately, the aforementioned tasks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Cosmin Stejerean , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Hassene Tmar , Alan C. Bovik

Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithm aims to quantify the human perception of image quality. Unfortunately, there is a performance drop when assessing the distortion images generated by generative adversarial network (GAN) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Shuwei Shi , Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Jiahao Wang , Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang

\underline{AI} \underline{G}enerated \underline{C}ontent (\textbf{AIGC}) has gained widespread attention with the increasing efficiency of deep learning in content creation. AIGC, created with the assistance of artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zicheng Zhang , Chunyi Li , Wei Sun , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

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

There has emerged a growing interest in exploring efficient quality assessment algorithms for image super-resolution (SR). However, employing deep learning techniques, especially dual-branch algorithms, to automatically evaluate the visual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yixiao Li , Xiaoyuan Yang , Jun Fu , Guanghui Yue , Wei Zhou

The optimization objective of regression-based blind image quality assessment (IQA) models is to minimize the mean prediction error across the training dataset, which can lead to biased parameter estimation due to potential training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaoqi Wang , Jian Xiong , Hao Gao , Weisi Lin

In this paper, we introduce an image quality assessment (IQA) method for pediatric T1- and T2-weighted MR images. IQA is first performed slice-wise using a nonlocal residual neural network (NR-Net) and then volume-wise by agglomerating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Siyuan Liu , Kim-Han Thung , Weili Lin , Pew-Thian Yap , Dinggang Shen

Existing deep learning-based full-reference IQA (FR-IQA) models usually predict the image quality in a deterministic way by explicitly comparing the features, gauging how severely distorted an image is by how far the corresponding feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Xingran Liao , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Mingliang Zhou , Sam Kwong

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to quantify how humans perceive visual distortions of digital images without access to their undistorted references. NR-IQA models are extensively studied in computational vision, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Guodong Guo , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Measuring the perceptual quality of images automatically is an essential task in the area of computer vision, as degradations on image quality can exist in many processes from image acquisition, transmission to enhancing. Many Image Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jing Wang , Haotian Fan , Xiaoxia Hou , Yitian Xu , Tao Li , Xuechao Lu , Lean Fu

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