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Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to estimate human perception based image visual quality. Although existing deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown significant effectiveness for tackling the IQA problem, it still needs to improve the…
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No-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) is an important tool in enhancing the user experience in diverse visual applications. A major drawback of state-of-the-art NR-IQA techniques is their reliance on a large number of human…
Just noticeable difference (JND) of natural images refers to the maximum pixel intensity change magnitude that typical human visual system (HVS) cannot perceive. Existing efforts on JND estimation mainly dedicate to modeling the diverse…
Image captioning has been recently gaining a lot of attention thanks to the impressive achievements shown by deep captioning architectures, which combine Convolutional Neural Networks to extract image representations, and Recurrent Neural…
No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental yet challenging task in low-level computer vision community. The difficulty is particularly pronounced for the limited information, for which the corresponding reference for…
Recent results suggest that state-of-the-art saliency models perform far from optimal in predicting fixations. This lack in performance has been attributed to an inability to model the influence of high-level image features such as objects.…
Saliency detection based on the complementary information from RGB images and depth maps has recently gained great popularity. In this paper, we propose Complementary Attention and Adaptive Integration Network (CAAI-Net), a novel RGB-D…