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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with references plays an important role in optimizing and evaluating computer vision tasks. Traditional methods assume that all pixels of the reference and test images are fully aligned. Such Aligned-Reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Zhou Wang

This paper uses robust statistics and curvelet transform to learn a general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) model. The new approach, here called M1, competes with the Curvelet Quality Assessment proposed in 2014…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ramon Giostri Campos , Evandro Ottoni Teatini Salles

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) focuses on designing methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception when a high-quality reference image is unavailable. Most state-of-the-art NR-IQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini

Due to the scarcity of labeled samples in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) datasets, numerous recent studies have proposed multi-task based strategies, which explore feature information from other tasks or domains to boost the IQA task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Li Yu

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhichao Ma , Fan Huang , Lu Zhao , Fengjun Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) has long been a research hotspot in the field of image processing, especially No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). Due to the powerful feature extraction ability, existing Convolution Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Jie Qin

Automatic Perceptual Image Quality Assessment is a challenging problem that impacts billions of internet, and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a Mixture of Experts approach to train two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Avinab Saha , Sandeep Mishra , Alan C. Bovik

With the development of rendering techniques, computer graphics generated images (CGIs) have been widely used in practical application scenarios such as architecture design, video games, simulators, movies, etc. Different from natural scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tao Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

Face recognition has made significant progress in recent years due to deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). In many face recognition (FR) scenarios, face images are acquired from a sequence with huge intra-variations. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Baoyun Peng , Min Liu , Zhaoning Zhang , Kai Xu , Dongsheng Li

Super-resolution (SR) applied to real-world low-resolution (LR) images often results in complex, irregular degradations that stem from the inherent complexity of natural scene acquisition. In contrast to SR artifacts arising from synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kian Majlessi , Amir Masoud Soltani , Mohammad Ebrahim Mahdavi , Aurelien Gourrier , Peyman Adibi

Evaluating the perceptual quality of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) images remains a key challenge, particularly in the absence of pixel-aligned ground truth references. Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) methods fail under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Abhijay Ghildyal , Rajesh Sureddi , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Alan Bovik

Research on image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited mainly due to our incomplete knowledge about human visual perception. Existing IQA algorithms have been designed or trained with insufficient subjective data with a small degree of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lucie Lévêque , Ji Yang , Xiaohan Yang , Pengfei Guo , Kenneth Dasalla , Leida Li , Yingying Wu , Hantao Liu

Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images. The outputs of the IQA algorithms are expected to be consistent with human subjective perception. In image restoration and enhancement tasks, images generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Shuwei Shi , Qingyan Bai , Mingdeng Cao , Weihao Xia , Jiahao Wang , Yifan Chen , Yujiu Yang

The statistical regularities of natural images, referred to as natural scene statistics, play an important role in no-reference image quality assessment. However, it has been widely acknowledged that screen content images (SCIs), which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Lingyu Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied to image super-resolution (SR) to enhance the perceptual quality. However, most existing GAN-based SR methods typically perform coarse-grained discrimination directly on images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Guanglu Dong , Xiangyu Liao , Mingyang Li , Guihuan Guo , Chao Ren

Current full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fuse features from reference and distorted images, overlooking that color and luminance distortions occur mainly at low frequencies, whereas edge and texture distortions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Xuekai Wei , Junyu Zhang , Qinlin Hu , Mingliang Zhou\\Yong Feng , Weizhi Xian , Huayan Pu , Sam Kwong

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) has received increasing attention in the IQA community since reference image is not always available. Real-world images generally suffer from various types of distortion. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Fu-Zhao Ou , Yuan-Gen Wang , Jin Li , Guopu Zhu , Sam Kwong

Image quality assessment (IQA) is crucial in the evaluation stage of novel algorithms operating on images, including traditional and machine learning based methods. Due to the lack of available quality-rated medical images, most commonly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Anna Breger , Janek Gröhl , Clemens Karner , Thomas R Else , Ian Selby , Tom Rix , Lara-Sophie Witt , Merle Duchêne , Jonathan Weir-McCall , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb