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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms evaluate the perceptual quality of an image using evaluation scores that assess the similarity or difference between two images. We propose a new low-level feature based IQA technique, which applies…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Navaneeth K. Kottayil , Irene Cheng , Frederic Dufaux , Anup Basu

Deep neural networks have demonstrated impressive success in No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). However, recent researches highlight the vulnerability of NR-IQA models to subtle adversarial perturbations, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Chenxi Yang , Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Yan Zhong , Tingting Jiang

Quality assessment for User Generated Content (UGC) videos plays an important role in ensuring the viewing experience of end-users. Previous UGC video quality assessment (VQA) studies either use the image recognition model or the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA), responsible for assessing the quality of a single input image without using any reference, plays a critical role in evaluating and optimizing computer vision systems, e.g., low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Xun Lin , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-peng Tan , Alex Kot

Image quality assessment that aims at estimating the subject quality of images, builds models to evaluate the perceptual quality of the image in different applications. Based on the fact that the human visual system (HVS) is highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Congmin Chen , Xuanqin Mou

Video quality assessment (VQA) is vital for computer vision tasks, but existing approaches face major limitations: full-reference (FR) metrics require clean reference videos, and most no-reference (NR) models depend on training on costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Kylie Cancilla , Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Carmen Carrano

The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments. Perceptual datasets gathered for this purpose have provided useful benchmarks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fail to capture the complex causal mechanisms that underlie human perceptual responses to image distortions, limiting their ability to generalize across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Wenhao Shen , Mingliang Zhou , Yu Chen , Xuekai Wei , Jun Luo , Huayan Pu , Weijia Jia

Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is the task of predicting the visual quality of an image as perceived by a human observer. Current state-of-the-art techniques are based on deep representations trained in discriminative manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Simon Raviv , Gal Chechik

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

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is essential for automatically evaluating the perceptual quality of visual signals without access to the references. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive analysis and discussion of recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Miaohui Wang

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) generally assumes that reference images are of perfect quality. However, this assumption is flawed due to the sensor and optical limitations of modern imaging systems. Moreover, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Du Chen , Tianhe Wu , Kede Ma , Lei Zhang

Traditional image quality assessment (IQA) methods rely on mean opinion scores (MOS), which are resource-intensive to collect and fail to provide interpretable, localized feedback on specific image distortions. We overcome these limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fadeel Sher Khan , Long N. Le , Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Seok-Jun Lee , Hamid R. Sheikh

The image Super-Resolution (SR) technique has greatly improved the visual quality of images by enhancing their resolutions. It also calls for an efficient SR Image Quality Assessment (SR-IQA) to evaluate those algorithms or their generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Keke Zhang , Tiesong Zhao , Weiling Chen , Yuzhen Niu , Jinsong Hu

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) is a proliferating paradigm for LMM training. Analogous to high-level reasoning tasks, RFT is similarly applicable to low-level vision domains, including image quality assessment (IQA). Existing RFT-based IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ziheng Jia , Jiaying Qian , Zicheng Zhang , Zijian Chen , Xiongkuo Min

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms aim to reproduce the human's perception of the image quality. The growing popularity of image enhancement, generation, and recovery models instigated the development of many methods to assess their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Segrey Kastryulin , Jamil Zakirov , Nicola Pezzotti , Dmitry V. Dylov

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…

Image quality is important, and can affect overall performance in image processing and computer vision as well as for numerous other reasons. Image quality assessment (IQA) is consequently a vital task in different applications from aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wei Dai , Daniel Berleant

We propose a novel certified defense method for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models based on randomized smoothing with noise applied in the feature space rather than the input space. Unlike prior approaches that inject Gaussian noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova