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Video Quality Assessment (VQA), which aims to predict the perceptual quality of a video, has attracted raising attention with the rapid development of streaming media technology, such as Facebook, TikTok, Kwai, and so on. Compared with…

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Completely blind video quality assessment (VQA) refers to a class of quality assessment methods that do not use any reference videos, human opinion scores or training videos from the target database to learn a quality model. The design of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Shankhanil Mitra , Rajiv Soundararajan

Video quality assessment (VQA) remains an important and challenging problem that affects many applications at the widest scales. Recent advances in mobile devices and cloud computing techniques have made it possible to capture, process, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Qi Zheng , Zhengzhong Tu , Pavan C. Madhusudana , Xiaoyang Zeng , Alan C. Bovik , Yibo Fan

Blind or no-reference video quality assessment of user-generated content (UGC) has become a trending, challenging, heretofore unsolved problem. Accurate and efficient video quality predictors suitable for this content are thus in great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Zhengzhong Tu , Xiangxu Yu , Yilin Wang , Neil Birkbeck , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Over the past decade, the online video industry has greatly expanded the volume of visual data that is streamed and shared over the Internet. Moreover, because of the increasing ease of video capture, many millions of consumers create and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Xiangxu Yu , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Christos G. Bampis , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Owing to the proliferation of user-generated videos on the Internet, blind video quality assessment (BVQA) at the edge attracts growing attention. The usage of deep-learning-based methods is restricted to be applied at the edge due to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

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

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based video quality assessment (VQA) framework to evaluate the quality of the compressed user's generated content (UGC) videos. The proposed VQA framework consists of three modules, the feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Wei Sun , Tao Wang , Xiongkuo Min , Fuwang Yi , Guangtao Zhai

As multimedia services such as video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring high perceptual visual quality becomes a priority to maintain user satisfaction and competitiveness.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wei Zhou , Hadi Amirpour , Christian Timmerer , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet , 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,…

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Unlike video coding for professional content, the delivery pipeline of User Generated Content (UGC) involves transcoding where unpristine reference content needs to be compressed repeatedly. In this work, we observe that existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Zihao Qi , Chen Feng , Duolikun Danier , Fan Zhang , Xiaozhong Xu , Shan Liu , David Bull

Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) plays an indispensable role in monitoring and improving the end-users' viewing experience in various real-world video-enabled media applications. As an experimental field, the improvements of BVQA…

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With recent advances in deep learning, numerous algorithms have been developed to enhance video quality, reduce visual artifacts, and improve perceptual quality. However, little research has been reported on the quality assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Tianhao Peng , Chen Feng , Duolikun Danier , Fan Zhang , Benoit Vallade , Alex Mackin , 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

High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos enhance visual experiences with superior brightness, contrast, and color depth. The surge of User-Generated Content (UGC) on platforms like YouTube and TikTok introduces unique challenges for HDR video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shreshth Saini , Alan C. Bovik , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli

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 prevalence of user-generated content (UGC) on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok has rendered no-reference (NR) perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) vital for optimizing video delivery. Nonetheless, the characteristics of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , Junxiao Shen , David Bull

This paper presents an overview of the VQualA 2025 Challenge on Engagement Prediction for Short Videos, held in conjunction with ICCV 2025. The challenge focuses on understanding and modeling the popularity of user-generated content (UGC)…

In response to the rising prominence of the Metaverse, omnidirectional videos (ODVs) have garnered notable interest, gradually shifting from professional-generated content (PGC) to user-generated content (UGC). However, the study of…

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Perceptual quality assessment of the videos acquired in the wilds is of vital importance for quality assurance of video services. The inaccessibility of reference videos with pristine quality and the complexity of authentic distortions pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Bowen Li , Weixia Zhang , Meng Tian , Guangtao Zhai , Xianpei Wang