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We present a no-reference video quality model and algorithm that delivers standout performance for High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos, which we call HDR-ChipQA. HDR videos represent wider ranges of luminances, details, and colors than Standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik

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

Current no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models for enhanced images often struggle to generalize, as they tend to overfit to the distinct patterns of specific enhancement algorithms rather than evaluating genuine perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shiqi Gao , Kang Fu , Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Inspired by the free-energy brain theory, which implies that human visual system (HVS) tends to reduce uncertainty and restore perceptual details upon seeing a distorted image, we propose restorative adversarial net (RAN), a GAN-based model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Hongyu Ren , Diqi Chen , Yizhou Wang

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

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

Full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) evaluates the visual quality of a distorted image by measuring its perceptual difference with pristine-quality reference, and has been widely used in low-level vision tasks. Pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yue Cao , Zhaolin Wan , Dongwei Ren , Zifei Yan , Wangmeng Zuo

Numerous image superresolution (SR) algorithms have been proposed for reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from input images with lower spatial resolutions. However, effectively evaluating the perceptual quality of SR images remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Wei Zhou , Qiuping Jiang , Yuwang Wang , Zhibo Chen , Weiping Li

Face swapping has become a prominent research area in computer vision and image processing due to rapid technological advancements. The metric of measuring the quality in most face swapping methods relies on several distances between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xinghui Zhou , Wenbo Zhou , Tianyi Wei , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Neural View Synthesis (NVS), such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting, effectively creates photorealistic scenes from sparse viewpoints, typically evaluated by quality assessment methods like PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qiang Qu , Yiran Shen , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Weidong Cai , Tongliang Liu

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

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

Deep Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methods have shown impressive high-performance capabilities. Notably, no-reference (NR) VQA methods play a vital role in situations where obtaining reference videos is restricted or not feasible.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Xiaoheng Tan , Jiabin Zhang , Yuhui Quan , Jing Li , Yajing Wu , Zilin Bian

We introduce a novel cross-reference image quality assessment method that effectively fills the gap in the image assessment landscape, complementing the array of established evaluation schemes -- ranging from full-reference metrics like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zirui Wang , Wenjing Bian , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

This study introduces a novel no-reference image quality metric aimed at assessing image sharpness. Designed to be robust against variations in noise, exposure, contrast, and image content, it measures the normalized decay rate of gradients…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Lucas Gonzalo Antonel

Latest advances in Super-Resolution (SR) have been tested with general purpose images such as faces, landscapes and objects, mainly unused for the task of super-resolving Earth Observation (EO) images. In this research paper, we benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 David Berga , Pau Gallés , Katalin Takáts , Eva Mohedano , Laura Riordan-Chen , Clara Garcia-Moll , David Vilaseca , Javier Marín

In this paper, we analyze the statistics of error signals to assess the perceived quality of images. Specifically, we focus on the magnitude spectrum of error images obtained from the difference of reference and distorted images. Analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

One major problem of objective Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods is the lack of linearity of their quality estimates with respect to scores expressed by human subjects. For this reason, usually IQA metrics undergo a calibration process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Elio D. Di Claudio , Paolo Giannitrapani , Giovanni Jacovitti

Existing deep network-based full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models typically work by performing pairwise comparisons of deep features from the reference and distorted images. In this paper, we approach this problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Zhang , Jielei Chu , Tian Zhang , Lin Ma , Fengmao Lv , Weide Liu , Tianrui Li , Yuming Fang

Image quality is an important practical challenge that is often overlooked in the design of machine vision systems. Commonly, machine vision systems are trained and tested on high quality image datasets, yet in practical applications the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Samuel Dodge , Lina Karam