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Objective image quality assessment (IQA) is imperative in the current multimedia-intensive world, in order to assess the visual quality of an image at close to a human level of ability. Many~parameters such as color intensity, structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Md Abu Layek , Sanjida Afroz , TaeChoong Chung , Eui-Nam Huh

We introduce the AIM 2024 UHD-IQA Challenge, a competition to advance the No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) task for modern, high-resolution photos. The challenge is based on the recently released UHD-IQA Benchmark Database,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Vlad Hosu , Marcos V. Conde , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Radu Timofte

Recent advances in reasoning-induced image quality assessment (IQA) have demonstrated the power of reinforcement learning to rank (RL2R) for training vision-language models (VLMs) to assess perceptual quality. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiangyong Chen , Xiaochuan Lin , Haoran Liu , Xuan Li , Yichen Su , Xiangwei Guo

Existing Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods achieve remarkable success in analyzing quality for overall image, but few works explore quality analysis for Regions of Interest (ROIs). The quality analysis of ROIs can provide fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zewen Chen , Juan Wang , Wen Wang , Sunhan Xu , Hang Xiong , Yun Zeng , Jian Guo , Shuxun Wang , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

With the inclusion of camera in daily life, an automatic no reference image quality evaluation index is required for automatic classification of images. The present manuscripts proposes a new No Reference Regional Mutual Information based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Vinay Kumar , Vivek Singh Bawa , Rahul Upadhyay

We introduce a novel cross-reference image quality assessment method that effectively fills the gap in the image assessment landscape, complementing the array of established evaluation schemes -- ranging from full-reference metrics like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zirui Wang , Wenjing Bian , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

As image generation technology advances, AI-based image generation has been applied in various fields and Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has garnered widespread attention. However, the development of AI-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiquan Yuan , Xinyan Cao , Changjin Li , Fanyi Yang , Jinlong Lin , Xixin Cao

Assessing the visual quality of video game graphics presents unique challenges due to the absence of reference images and the distinct types of distortions, such as aliasing, texture blur, and geometry level of detail (LOD) issues, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kai Zhu , Vignesh Edithal , Le Zhang , Ilia Blank , Imran Junejo

Image aesthetics assessment (IAA) aims to estimate the aesthetics of images. Depending on the content of an image, diverse criteria need to be selected to assess its aesthetics. Existing works utilize pre-trained vision backbones based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhiwei Xiong , Yunfan Zhang , Zhiqi Shen , Peiran Ren , Han Yu

Neural View Synthesis (NVS) has demonstrated efficacy in generating high-fidelity dense viewpoint videos using a image set with sparse views. However, existing quality assessment methods like PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS are not tailored for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qiang Qu , Hanxue Liang , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Yiran Shen

Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms aim to reproduce the human's perception of the image quality. The growing popularity of image enhancement, generation, and recovery models instigated the development of many methods to assess their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Segrey Kastryulin , Jamil Zakirov , Nicola Pezzotti , Dmitry V. Dylov

It is well-known that there is no universal metric for image quality evaluation. In this case, distortion-specific metrics can be more reliable. The artifact imposed by image compression can be considered as a combination of various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 S. Farhad Hosseini-Benvidi , Hossein Motamednia , Azadeh Mansouri , Mohammadreza Raei , Ahmad Mahmoudi-Aznaveh

Reconstructing MR images using deep neural networks from undersampled k-space data without using fully sampled training references offers significant value in practice, which is a self-supervised regression problem calling for effective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Liyan Sun , Shaocong Yu , Chi Zhang , Xinghao Ding

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) has advanced significantly through deep learning, but the scarcity of large-scale labeled datasets remains a challenge. While synthetic data offers a promising solution, models trained on existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Aobo Li , Jinjian Wu , Yongxu Liu , Leida Li , Weisheng Dong

Quality assessment of videos is crucial for many computer graphics applications, including video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality, where visual performance has a significant impact on user experience. When test videos cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sipeng Yang , Jiayu Ji , Qingchuan Zhu , Zhiyao Yang , Xiaogang Jin

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

A long-held challenge in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) learning from human subjective perception is the lack of objective generalization to unseen natural distortions. To address this, we integrate a novel Depth-Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vaishnav Ramesh , Junliang Liu , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

As super-resolution (SR) techniques advance, we observe a growing distrust of evaluation metrics in recent SR research. An inconsistency often emerges between certain evaluation criteria and human perceptual preference. Although current SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shaolin Su , Josep M. Rocafort , Danna Xue , David Serrano-Lozano , Lei Sun , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent perceptual IR algorithms based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) have brought in significant improvement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

This paper reports on the NTIRE 2022 challenge on perceptual image quality assessment (IQA), held in conjunction with the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop (NTIRE) workshop at CVPR 2022. This challenge is held to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Chao Dong , Jimmy S. Ren , Radu Timofte