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Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to automatically evaluate the perceived quality of a single image, whose performance has been improved by deep learning-based methods in recent years. However, the paucity of labeled data somewhat…

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Document image quality assessment (DIQA) is an important component for various applications, including optical character recognition (OCR), document restoration, and the evaluation of document image processing systems. In this paper, we…

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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

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

Several existing and successful full reference image quality assessment (IQA) models use linear color transformation and downsampling before measuring similarity or quality of images. This paper indicates to the right order of these two…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Hossein Ziaei Nafchi , Mohamed Cheriet

Due to the strong correlation between visual attention and perceptual quality, many methods attempt to use human saliency information for image quality assessment. Although this mechanism can get good performance, the networks require human…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Li Yang , Mai Xu , Deng Xin , Bo Feng

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

We aim at advancing blind image quality assessment (BIQA), which predicts the human perception of image quality without any reference information. We develop a general and automated multitask learning scheme for BIQA to exploit auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Weixia Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Ying Wei , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is important for scientific inquiry, especially in medical imaging and machine learning. Potential data quality issues can be exacerbated when human-based workflows use limited views of the data that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Riqiang Gao , Mirza S. Khan , Yucheng Tang , Kaiwen Xu , Steve Deppen , Yuankai Huo , Kim L. Sandler , Pierre P. Massion , Bennett A. Landman

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) remains a challenging task due to the diversity of distortions and the lack of large annotated datasets. Many studies have attempted to tackle these challenges by developing more accurate…

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

There has been a growing interest in developing image super-resolution (SR) algorithms that convert low-resolution (LR) to higher resolution images, but automatically evaluating the visual quality of super-resolved images remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent IR methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved significant improvement in visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

With the advent of image super-resolution (SR) algorithms, how to evaluate the quality of generated SR images has become an urgent task. Although full-reference methods perform well in SR image quality assessment (SR-IQA), their reliance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Xinying Lin , Xuyang Liu , Hong Yang , Xiaohai He , Honggang Chen

To display low-quality broadcast content on high-resolution screens in full-screen format, the application of Super-Resolution (SR), a key consumer technology, is essential. Recently, SR methods have been developed that not only increase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Yongrok Kim , Junha Shin , Juhyun Lee , Hyunsuk Ko

UHD images, typically with resolutions equal to or higher than 4K, pose a significant challenge for efficient image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms, as adopting full-resolution images as inputs leads to overwhelming computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Yuqin Cao , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Zijian Chen , Zicheng Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

A successful approach to image quality assessment involves comparing the structural information between a distorted and its reference image. However, extracting structural information that is perceptually important to our visual system is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Tanaya Guha , Ehsan Nezhadarya , Rabab K Ward

Image quality assessment (IQA) is inherently complex, as it reflects both the quantification and interpretation of perceptual quality rooted in the human visual system. Conventional approaches typically rely on fixed models to output scalar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanwei Zhu , Yu Tian , Keyan Ding , Baoliang Chen , Bolin Chen , Shiqi Wang , Weisi Lin

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

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

Recent advances in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) have leveraged Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate descriptive explanations. However, despite their strong visual perception modules, these models often fail to reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuan Li , Zitang Sun , Yen-Ju Chen , Shin'ya Nishida