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This paper presents the results of a subjective quality assessment of a multilayer video coding configuration in which Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) is applied as an enhancement layer on top of a Versatile Video Coding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Naeem Ramzan , Muhammad Tufail Khan

We conducted a large-scale subjective study of the perceptual quality of User-Generated Mobile Video Content on a set of mobile-originated videos obtained from the Indian social media platform ShareChat. The content viewed by volunteer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Sandeep Mishra , Mukul Jha , Alan C. Bovik

Short-form UGC video platforms, like Kwai and TikTok, have been an emerging and irreplaceable mainstream media form, thriving on user-friendly engagement, and kaleidoscope creation, etc. However, the advancing content-generation modes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Yiting Lu , Xin Li , Yajing Pei , Kun Yuan , Qizhi Xie , Yunpeng Qu , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Zhibo Chen

With the rapid growth of User-Generated Content (UGC) exchanged between users and sharing platforms, the need for video quality assessment in the wild is increasingly evident. UGC is typically acquired using consumer devices and undergoes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , David Bull

In recent years, user generated content (UGC) has become the dominant force in internet traffic. However, UGC videos exhibit a higher degree of variability and diverse characteristics compared to traditional encoding test videos. This…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Fei Zhao , Mengxi Guo , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Xiaodong Xie

AI-based image enhancement techniques have been widely adopted in various visual applications, significantly improving the perceptual quality of user-generated content (UGC). However, the lack of specialized quality assessment models has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Jun Chen , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

Perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) is an integral component of many streaming and video sharing platforms. Here we consider the problem of learning perceptually relevant video quality representations in a self-supervised manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Several large-scale video datasets have been published these years and have advanced the area of video understanding. However, the newly emerged user-generated short-form videos have rarely been studied. This paper presents USV, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haoyue Cheng , Su Xu , Liwei Jin , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Limin Wang

Video and image quality assessment has long been projected as a regression problem, which requires predicting a continuous quality score given an input stimulus. However, recent efforts have shown that accurate quality score regression on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhengzhong Tu , Chia-Ju Chen , Li-Heng Chen , Yilin Wang , Neil Birkbeck , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

The advent of AI has influenced many aspects of human life, from self-driving cars and intelligent chatbots to text-based image and video generation models capable of creating realistic images and videos based on user prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Abhijay Ghildyal , Yuanhan Chen , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

The rapid growth of user-generated (video) content (UGC) has driven increased demand for research on no-reference (NR) perceptual video quality assessment (VQA). NR-VQA is a key component for large-scale video quality monitoring in social…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , David Bull

No-reference (NR) perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) is a complex, unsolved, and important problem to social and streaming media applications. Efficient and accurate video quality predictors are needed to monitor and guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Zhenqiang Ying , Maniratnam Mandal , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Alan Bovik

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have introduced a paradigm shift for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) from unexplainable image quality scoring to explainable IQA, demonstrating practical applications like quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenjie Liao , Jieyu Yuan , Yifang Xu , Chunle Guo , Zilong Zhang , Jihong Li , Jiachen Fu , Haotian Fan , Tao Li , Junhui Cui , Chongyi Li

The volume of User Generated Content (UGC) has increased in recent years. The challenge with this type of content is assessing its quality. So far, the state-of-the-art metrics are not exhibiting a very high correlation with perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , David Bull

Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is evolving beyond single-number mean opinion score toward richer, multi-faceted evaluations of video content. In this paper, we present a large-scale multi-dimensional VQA dataset UltraVQA that encompasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Boda Lin , Yongjie Zhu , Wenyu Qin , Meng Wang , Pengfei Wan

User Generated Content (UGC) videos are susceptible to complicated and variant degradations and contents, which prevents the existing blind video quality assessment (BVQA) models from good performance since the lack of the adapability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yajing Pei , Shiyu Huang , Yiting Lu , Xin Li , Zhibo Chen

Short-form video poses new challenges to the quality assessment of user-generated content (UGC) due to its complex generation pipeline, rapid content variation, and mixed distortions. To address this challenge, we propose an end-to-end…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , Junxiao Shen , David Bull

Video shakiness is an unpleasant distortion of User Generated Content (UGC) videos, which is usually caused by the unstable hold of cameras. In recent years, many video stabilization algorithms have been proposed, yet no specific and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tengchuan Kou , Xiaohong Liu , Wei Sun , Jun Jia , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Ning Liu

No-reference video quality assessment (NR-VQA) for user generated content (UGC) is crucial for understanding and improving visual experience. Unlike video recognition tasks, VQA tasks are sensitive to changes in input resolution. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Junjie Ke , Tianhao Zhang , Yilin Wang , Peyman Milanfar , Feng Yang

Video quality assessment (VQA) is an important problem in computer vision. The videos in computer vision applications are usually captured in the wild. We focus on automatically assessing the quality of in-the-wild videos, which is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang , Ming Jiang