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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

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

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains a very challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. Deep learning based BIQA methods have been attracting increasing attention in recent years, yet it remains a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang , Alan C. Bovik

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims at estimating image quality in accordance with subjective human perception. However, most methods focus on exploring increasingly complex networks to improve the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ronghua Liao , Chen Hui , Lang Yuan , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang

Year after year, the demand for ever-better smartphone photos continues to grow, in particular in the domain of portrait photography. Manufacturers thus use perceptual quality criteria throughout the development of smartphone cameras. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Nicolas Chahine , Ana-Stefania Calarasanu , Davide Garcia-Civiero , Theo Cayla , Sira Ferradans , Jean Ponce

Visualizing the spatial profile of light beams is essential for evaluating irradiance, characterizing beam quality, and achieving precise alignment. In the optical spectral range, this is readily performed using silicon-based CCD and CMOS…

The image Super-Resolution (SR) technique has greatly improved the visual quality of images by enhancing their resolutions. It also calls for an efficient SR Image Quality Assessment (SR-IQA) to evaluate those algorithms or their generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Keke Zhang , Tiesong Zhao , Weiling Chen , Yuzhen Niu , Jinsong Hu

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA), responsible for assessing the quality of a single input image without using any reference, plays a critical role in evaluating and optimizing computer vision systems, e.g., low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Xun Lin , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-peng Tan , Alex Kot

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

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to estimate perceptual quality without access to a reference image of pristine quality. Learning an NR-IQA model faces a fundamental bottleneck: its need for a large number of costly human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahdi Naseri , Zhou Wang

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

Depth perception plays an essential role in the viewer experience for immersive virtual reality (VR) visual environments. However, previous research investigations in the depth quality of 3D/stereoscopic images are rather limited, and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

Terahertz (THz) imaging is one of the hotspots in the field of optics, where the depth information retrieval is a key factor to restore the three-dimensional appearance of objects. Impressive results for depth extraction in visible and…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-09 Mingjun Xiang , Hui Yuan , Kai Zhou , Hartmut G. Roskos

We propose a novel certified defense method for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models based on randomized smoothing with noise applied in the feature space rather than the input space. Unlike prior approaches that inject Gaussian noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

BIQA (Blind Image Quality Assessment) is an important field of study that evaluates images automatically. Although significant progress has been made, blind image quality assessment remains a difficult task since images vary in content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Xu Wei , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed , Zhu Shuangtong , Xin Liu , Yimei Xu

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

Image quality assessment is a fundamental problem in the field of image processing, and due to the lack of reference images in most practical scenarios, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), has gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

Image dehazing has become an important computational imaging topic in the recent years. However, due to the lack of ground truth images, the comparison of dehazing methods is not straightforward, nor objective. To overcome this issue we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Codruta O. Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti , Radu Timofte , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

In order to assure a stable series of recorded images of sufficient quality for further scientific analysis, an objective image quality measure is required. Especially when dealing with ground-based observations, which are subject to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Robert Jarolim , Astrid Veronig , Werner Pötzi , Tatiana Podladchikova

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision that has witnessed remarkable progress with deep neural networks. Inspired by the characteristics of the human visual system, existing methods typically use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chaofeng Chen , Jiadi Mo , Jingwen Hou , Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin