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We introduce HIDRO-VQA, a no-reference (NR) video quality assessment model designed to provide precise quality evaluations of High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos. HDR videos exhibit a broader spectrum of luminance, detail, and color than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Shreshth Saini , Avinab Saha , Alan C. Bovik

We present a generic method for assessing the quality of non-rigid registration (NRR) algorithms, that does not depend on the existence of any ground truth, but depends solely on the data itself. The data is a set of images. The output of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Carole J. Twining , Vladimir S. Petrović , Timothy F. Cootes , Roy S. Schestowitz , William R. Crum , Christopher J. Taylor

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an active research area in the field of image processing. Most prior works focus on visual quality of natural images captured by cameras. In this paper, we explore visual quality of scanned documents,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Justin Yang , Peter Bauer , Todd Harris , Changhyung Lee , Hyeon Seok Seo , Jan P Allebach , Fengqing Zhu

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

This paper studies the problem of full reference visual quality assessment of denoised images with a special emphasis on images with low contrast and noise-like texture. Denoising of such images together with noise removal often results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Karen Egiazarian , Mykola Ponomarenko , Vladimir Lukin , Oleg Ieremeiem

Traditional metrics for evaluating the efficacy of image processing techniques do not lend themselves to understanding the capabilities and limitations of modern image processing methods - particularly those enabled by deep learning. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Chris M. Ward , Josh Harguess , Brendan Crabb , Shibin Parameswaran

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

Despite substantial progress in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), previous training models often suffer from over-fitting due to the limited scale of used datasets, resulting in model performance bottlenecks. To tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jiamu Sheng , Jiayuan Fan , Peng Ye , Jianjian Cao

To improve the viewer's Quality of Experience (QoE) and optimize computer graphics applications, 3D model quality assessment (3D-QA) has become an important task in the multimedia area. Point cloud and mesh are the two most widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Tao Wang , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

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

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

Several metrics exist to quantify the similarity between images, but they are inefficient when it comes to measure the similarity of highly distorted images. In this work, we propose to empirically investigate perceptual metrics based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Rémi Kazmierczak , Gianni Franchi , Nacim Belkhir , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

Scale-invariance is an open problem in many computer vision subfields. For example, object labels should remain constant across scales, yet model predictions diverge in many cases. This problem gets harder for tasks where the ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Oliver Wiedemann , Vlad Hosu , Shaolin Su , Dietmar Saupe

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are increasingly deployed as perceptual critics to guide generative models and image restoration. This role demands not only accurate scores but also actionable, localized feedback. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xudong Li , Jiaxi Tan , Ziyin Zhou , Yan Zhong , Zihao Huang , Jingyuan Zheng , Yan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

This work presents a novel framework for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) founded on the analysis of directional image curvature. Within this framework, we define a measure of Anisotropic Texture Richness (ATR), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Diego Frias

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

The content and distortion are widely recognized as the two primary factors affecting the visual quality of an image. While existing No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods have modeled these factors, they fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shuai Liu , Qingyu Mao , Chao Li , Jiacong Chen , Fanyang Meng , Yonghong Tian , Yongsheng Liang

One of the challenges facing the adoption of digital pathology workflows for clinical use is the need for automated quality control. As the scanners sometimes determine focus inaccurately, the resultant image blur deteriorates the scanned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-16 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Yueyang Zhang , Lyndon Chan , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Jasper A. Z. Brawley-Hayes , Savvas Damaskinos

Image quality control (IQC) can be used in automated magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis to exclude erroneous results caused by poorly acquired or artifact-laden images. Existing IQC methods for MR imaging generally require human effort…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Lianrui Zuo , Yuan Xue , Blake E. Dewey , Yihao Liu , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

Image quality databases are used to train models for predicting subjective human perception. However, most existing databases focus on distortions commonly found in digital media and not in natural conditions. Affine transformations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Paula Daudén-Oliver , David Agost-Beltran , Emilio Sansano-Sansano , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo , Marina Martínez-Garcia