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Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images. The outputs of the IQA algorithms are expected to be consistent with human subjective perception. In image restoration and enhancement tasks, images generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Shuwei Shi , Qingyan Bai , Mingdeng Cao , Weihao Xia , Jiahao Wang , Yifan Chen , Yujiu Yang

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images in accordance with human subjective perception. Unfortunately, existing NR-IQA methods are far from meeting the needs of predicting accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Shuwei Shi , Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Mingdeng Cao , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang

We propose Intrinsic Quality (IQ), a validation-free metric designed to estimate the inherent potential of face recognition (FR) datasets to produce high-performance models without the need for full-scale training. IQ integrates two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhichao Chen , Yongle Zhao , Kaicheng Yang , Meng Yang , Yin Xie , Ziyong Feng

When developing machine learning models, image quality assessment (IQA) measures are a crucial component for the evaluation of obtained output images. However, commonly used full-reference IQA (FR-IQA) measures have been primarily developed…

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a challenging task that requires training on massive datasets to achieve accurate predictions. However, due to the lack of IQA data, deep learning-based IQA methods typically rely on pre-trained networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xinpeng Li , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

The development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enables the evaluation of image quality through natural language descriptions. This advancement allows for more detailed assessments. However, these MLLM-based IQA methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zheng Chen , Xun Zhang , Wenbo Li , Renjing Pei , Fenglong Song , Xiongkuo Min , Xiaohong Liu , Xin Yuan , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

Applications of perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) in image and video processing, such as image acquisition, image compression, image restoration and multimedia communication, have led to the development of many IQA metrics. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Hossein Ziaei Nafchi , Atena Shahkolaei , Rachid Hedjam , Mohamed Cheriet

Diffusion-based models have recently revolutionized image generation, achieving unprecedented levels of fidelity. However, consistent generation of high-quality images remains challenging partly due to the lack of conditioning mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khaled Abud , Sergey Lavrushkin , Alexey Kirillov , Dmitriy Vatolin

Blind 360{\deg}image quality assessment (IQA) aims to predict perceptual quality for panoramic images without a pristine reference. Unlike conventional planar images, 360{\deg}content in immersive environments restricts viewers to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yujia Wang , Yuyan Li , Jiuming Liu , Fang-Lue Zhang , Xinhu Zheng , Neil. A Dodgson

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent IR methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved significant improvement in visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

Image quality assessment is a fundamental problem in the field of image processing, and due to the lack of reference images in most practical scenarios, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), has gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

The rapid development of text-to-image (T2I) generation approaches has attracted extensive interest in evaluating the quality of generated images, leading to the development of various quality assessment methods for general-purpose T2I…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Wei Sun , Zhichao Zhang , Yucheng Zhu , Zicheng Zhang , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) remains a challenging task due to the diversity of distortions and the lack of large annotated datasets. Many studies have attempted to tackle these challenges by developing more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

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

Assessing the visual quality of video game graphics presents unique challenges due to the absence of reference images and the distinct types of distortions, such as aliasing, texture blur, and geometry level of detail (LOD) issues, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kai Zhu , Vignesh Edithal , Le Zhang , Ilia Blank , Imran Junejo

Image quality assessment (IQA) is standard practice in the development stage of novel machine learning algorithms that operate on images. The most commonly used IQA measures have been developed and tested for natural images, but not in the…

Machine vision systems (MVS) are intrinsically vulnerable to performance degradation under adverse visual conditions. To address this, we propose a machine-centric image quality assessment (MIQA) framework that quantifies the impact of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaoqi Wang , Yun Zhang , Weisi Lin

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved impressive results today, but not all generated images are perfect. A number of quantitative criteria have recently emerged for generative model, but none of them are designed for a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Quality assessment of omnidirectional images has become increasingly urgent due to the rapid growth of virtual reality applications. Different from traditional 2D images and videos, omnidirectional contents can provide consumers with freely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Jiahua Xu , Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

No reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a task to estimate the perceptual quality of an image without its corresponding original image. It is even more difficult to perform this task in a zero-shot manner, i.e., without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Takamichi Miyata