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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

One major problem of objective Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods is the lack of linearity of their quality estimates with respect to scores expressed by human subjects. For this reason, usually IQA metrics undergo a calibration process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Elio D. Di Claudio , Paolo Giannitrapani , Giovanni Jacovitti

In multimedia broadcasting, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is used to indicate the user-perceived quality of experience (QoE) and to support intelligent data transmission while optimizing user experience. This paper proposes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Qiang Qu , Xiaoming Chen , Vera Chung , Zhibo Chen

Objective image quality assessment deals with the prediction of digital images' perceptual quality. No-reference image quality assessment predicts the quality of a given input image without any knowledge or information about its pristine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Domonkos Varga

Deep Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methods have shown impressive high-performance capabilities. Notably, no-reference (NR) VQA methods play a vital role in situations where obtaining reference videos is restricted or not feasible.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Xiaoheng Tan , Jiabin Zhang , Yuhui Quan , Jing Li , Yajing Wu , Zilin Bian

Recent advancements in the field of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) using deep learning techniques demonstrate high performance across multiple open-source datasets. However, such models are typically very large and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

While recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly improved their abilities in image quality assessment (IQA) relying on absolute quality rating, how to transfer reliable relative quality comparison outputs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanwei Zhu , Haoning Wu , Yixuan Li , Zicheng Zhang , Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Yuming Fang , Guangtao Zhai , Weisi Lin , Shiqi Wang

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) techniques compare a reference and a distorted/test image and predict the perceptual quality of the test image in terms of a scalar value representing an objective score. The evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Ashirbani Saha , Q. M. Jonathan Wu

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods typically overlook local manifold structures, leading to compromised discriminative capabilities in perceptual quality evaluation. To address this limitation, we present LML-IQA, an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zihao Huang , Runze Hu , Timin Gao , Yan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li

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

Neural View Synthesis (NVS), such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting, effectively creates photorealistic scenes from sparse viewpoints, typically evaluated by quality assessment methods like PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qiang Qu , Yiran Shen , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Weidong Cai , Tongliang Liu

Existing deep network-based full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models typically work by performing pairwise comparisons of deep features from the reference and distorted images. In this paper, we approach this problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Zhang , Jielei Chu , Tian Zhang , Lin Ma , Fengmao Lv , Weide Liu , Tianrui Li , Yuming Fang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is essential in various Computer Vision tasks such as image deblurring and super-resolution. However, most IQA methods require reference images, which are not always available. While there are some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Han Cui , Alfredo De Goyeneche , Efrat Shimron , Boyuan Ma , Michael Lustig

Despite significant progress in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), dataset biases and reliance on subjective labels continue to hinder their generalization performance. We propose HiRQA (Hierarchical Ranking and Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Vaishnav Ramesh , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) predicts perceptual quality scores consistent with human judgments. Recent RL-based IQA methods built on MLLMs focus on generating visual quality descriptions and scores, ignoring two key reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wulin Xie , Rui Dai , Ruidong Ding , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xinwen Hou , Jie Wen

Deep learning-based quality metrics have recently given significant improvement in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). In the field of stereoscopic vision, information is evenly distributed with slight disparity to the left and right eyes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Oussama Messai , Aladine Chetouani

Deep neural networks have demonstrated impressive success in No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). However, recent researches highlight the vulnerability of NR-IQA models to subtle adversarial perturbations, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Chenxi Yang , Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Yan Zhong , Tingting Jiang

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

The prevalence of user-generated content (UGC) on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok has rendered no-reference (NR) perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) vital for optimizing video delivery. Nonetheless, the characteristics of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , Junxiao Shen , David Bull

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fail to capture the complex causal mechanisms that underlie human perceptual responses to image distortions, limiting their ability to generalize across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Wenhao Shen , Mingliang Zhou , Yu Chen , Xuekai Wei , Jun Luo , Huayan Pu , Weijia Jia