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Image quality assessment (IQA) forms a natural and often straightforward undertaking for humans, yet effective automation of the task remains highly challenging. Recent metrics from the deep learning community commonly compare image pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 William Thong , Jose Costa Pereira , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a challenging task that requires training on massive datasets to achieve accurate predictions. However, due to the lack of IQA data, deep learning-based IQA methods typically rely on pre-trained networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xinpeng Li , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Existing free-energy guided No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods still suffer from finding a balance between learning feature information at the pixel level of the image and capturing high-level feature information and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoyang Wang , Bo Hu , Mingyang Zhang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

Diffusion-based models have recently revolutionized image generation, achieving unprecedented levels of fidelity. However, consistent generation of high-quality images remains challenging partly due to the lack of conditioning mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khaled Abud , Sergey Lavrushkin , Alexey Kirillov , Dmitriy Vatolin

Traditional deep neural network (DNN)-based image quality assessment (IQA) models leverage convolutional neural networks (CNN) or Transformer to learn the quality-aware feature representation, achieving commendable performance on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Puyi Wang , Wei Sun , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Yanwei Jiang , Zhichao Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

The rapid development of text-to-image (T2I) generation approaches has attracted extensive interest in evaluating the quality of generated images, leading to the development of various quality assessment methods for general-purpose T2I…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Wei Sun , Zhichao Zhang , Yucheng Zhu , Zicheng Zhang , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

New multinuclear MRI techniques, such as sodium MRI, generally suffer from low image quality due to an inherently low signal. Postprocessing methods, such as image denoising, have been developed for image enhancement. However, the…

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

Deep learning-based methods have significantly influenced the blind image quality assessment (BIQA) field, however, these methods often require training using large amounts of human rating data. In contrast, traditional knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhangkai Ni , Yue Liu , Keyan Ding , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Shiqi Wang

Machine vision systems (MVS) are intrinsically vulnerable to performance degradation under adverse visual conditions. To address this, we propose a machine-centric image quality assessment (MIQA) framework that quantifies the impact of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaoqi Wang , Yun Zhang , Weisi Lin

The design of image and video quality assessment (QA) algorithms is extremely important to benchmark and calibrate user experience in modern visual systems. A major drawback of the state-of-the-art QA methods is their limited ability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Shankhanil Mitra , Diptanu De , Shika Rao , Rajiv Soundararajan

Contrast change is an important factor that affects the quality of images. During image capturing, unfavorable lighting conditions can cause contrast change and visual quality loss. While various methods have been proposed to assess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour , Saeed Mahmoudpour

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

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently shown remarkable promise in low-level visual perception tasks, particularly in Image Quality Assessment (IQA), demonstrating strong zero-shot capability. However, achieving state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kang Fu , Huiyu Duan , Zicheng Zhang , Yucheng Zhu , Jun Zhao , Xiongkuo Min , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Image quality assessment (IQA) serves as the golden standard for all models' performance in nearly all computer vision fields. However, it still suffers from poor out-of-distribution generalization ability and expensive training costs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Kai Liu , Ziqing Zhang , Wenbo Li , Renjing Pei , Fenglong Song , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision, which however remains unresolved due to the complex distortion conditions and diversified image contents. To confront this challenge, we in this paper propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Guanyi Qin , Runze Hu , Yutao Liu , Xiawu Zheng , Haotian Liu , Xiu Li , Yan Zhang

As an affordable and convenient eye scan, fundus photography holds the potential for preventing vision impairment, especially in resource-limited regions. However, fundus image degradation is common under intricate imaging environments,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Heng Li , Haojin Li , Mingyang Ou , Xiangyang Yu , Xiaoqing Zhang , Ke Niu , Huazhu Fu , Jiang Liu

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of image storage and transmission systems, in which image compression plays an important role. Generally speaking, image compression algorithms are developed to ensure good visual quality at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Wei Wu , Ying Chen , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Blind 360{\deg}image quality assessment (IQA) aims to predict perceptual quality for panoramic images without a pristine reference. Unlike conventional planar images, 360{\deg}content in immersive environments restricts viewers to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yujia Wang , Yuyan Li , Jiuming Liu , Fang-Lue Zhang , Xinhu Zheng , Neil. A Dodgson

Contemporary face recognition (FR) models achieve near-ideal recognition performance in constrained settings, yet do not fully translate the performance to unconstrained (realworld) scenarios. To help improve the performance and stability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Žiga Babnik , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc