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With the rapid advancement of video generation models such as Sora, video quality assessment (VQA) is becoming increasingly crucial for selecting high-quality videos from large-scale datasets used in pre-training. Traditional VQA methods,…

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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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The rapid advancement of large multimodal models (LMMs) has led to the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence generated videos (AIGVs), which highlights the pressing need for effective video quality assessment (VQA) models designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiarui Wang , Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai , Juntong Wang , Xiongkuo Min

This paper introduces a Video Quality Assessment (VQA) problem that has received little attention in the literature, called the latent resolution prediction problem. The problem arises when images or videos are upscaled from their native…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Rittwika Kansabanik , Adrian Barbu

We study the visual quality judgments of human subjects on digital human avatars (sometimes referred to as "holograms" in the parlance of virtual reality [VR] and augmented reality [AR] systems) that have been subjected to distortions. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yu-Chih Chen , Avinab Saha , Alexandre Chapiro , Christian Häne , Jean-Charles Bazin , Bo Qiu , Stefano Zanetti , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Alan C. Bovik

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

The advent and proliferation of large multi-modal models (LMMs) have introduced new paradigms to computer vision, transforming various tasks into a unified visual question answering framework. Video Quality Assessment (VQA), a classic field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ziheng Jia , Zicheng Zhang , Jiaying Qian , Haoning Wu , Wei Sun , Chunyi Li , Xiaohong Liu , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

The increased resolution of real-world videos presents a dilemma between efficiency and accuracy for deep Video Quality Assessment (VQA). On the one hand, keeping the original resolution will lead to unacceptable computational costs. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Haoning Wu , Chaofeng Chen , Liang Liao , Jingwen Hou , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Jinwei Gu , Weisi Lin

Previous blind or No Reference (NR) video quality assessment (VQA) models largely rely on features drawn from natural scene statistics (NSS), but under the assumption that the image statistics are stationary in the spatial domain. Several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Yize Jin , Anjul Patney , Richard Webb , Alan Bovik

No-reference video quality assessment (NR-VQA) for gaming videos is challenging due to limited human-rated datasets and unique content characteristics including fast motion, stylized graphics, and compression artifacts. We present MTL-VQA,…

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No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to quantify how humans perceive visual distortions of digital images without access to their undistorted references. NR-IQA models are extensively studied in computational vision, and are…

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Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is a very challenging task due to its highly subjective nature. Moreover, many factors influence VQA. Compression of video content, while necessary for minimising transmission and storage requirements,…

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

The rising popularity of online User-Generated-Content (UGC) in the form of streamed and shared videos, has hastened the development of perceptual Video Quality Assessment (VQA) models, which can be used to help optimize their delivery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xiangxu Yu , Zhenqiang Ying , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Recent advances in AI-generated content (AIGC) have led to the emergence of powerful text-to-video generation models. Despite these successes, evaluating the quality of AIGC-generated videos remains challenging due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuanyu Zhang , Weiqi Li , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Jian Zhang

With the explosive increase of User Generated Content (UGC), UGC video quality assessment (VQA) becomes more and more important for improving users' Quality of Experience (QoE). However, most existing UGC VQA studies only focus on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Yuqin Cao , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Sun , Xiaoping Zhang , Guangtao Zhai

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

No-reference video quality assessment (NR-VQA) estimates perceptual quality without a reference video, which is often challenging. While recent techniques leverage saliency or transformer attention, they merely address global context of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Mayesha Maliha R. Mithila , Mylene C. Q. Farias

Point cloud is one of the most widely used digital formats of 3D models, the visual quality of which is quite sensitive to distortions such as downsampling, noise, and compression. To tackle the challenge of point cloud quality assessment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Yu Fan , Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Lu , Tao Wang , Ning Liu , Guangtao Zhai

The explosive growth of videos on streaming media platforms has underscored the urgent need for effective video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms to monitor and perceptually optimize the quality of streaming videos. However, VQA remains…

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