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Recent advancements in Blind Image Restoration (BIR) methods, based on Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models, have significantly improved visual quality. However, they present significant challenges for Image Quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Xiaojun Tang , Jingru Wang , Guangwei Huang , Guannan Chen , Rui Zheng , Lian Huai , Yuyu Liu , Xingqun Jiang

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods often incorporate auxiliary tasks to improve performance. However, existing approaches face limitations due to insufficient integration and a lack of flexible uncertainty estimation, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yiwei Lou , Yuanpeng He , Rongchao Zhang , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Yu Huang

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is an essential task that estimates the perceptual quality of images without reference. While many BIQA methods employ deep neural networks (DNNs) and incorporate saliency detectors to enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Ensemble methods are generally regarded to be better than a single model if the base learners are deemed to be "accurate" and "diverse." Here we investigate a semi-supervised ensemble learning strategy to produce generalizable blind image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zhihua Wang , Dingquan Li , Kede Ma

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a core task in computer vision. Multimodal methods based on vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities in IQA tasks. To address the issues of excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yongkang Hou , Jiarun Song

Blind image quality assessment (IQA) in the wild, which assesses the quality of images with complex authentic distortions and no reference images, presents significant challenges. Given the difficulty in collecting large-scale training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Honghao Fu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

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

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Recent advancements in image quality assessment (IQA), driven by sophisticated deep neural network designs, have significantly improved the ability to approach human perceptions. However, most existing methods are obsessed with fitting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shunyu Yao , Ming Liu , Zhilu Zhang , Zhaolin Wan , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Wangmeng Zuo

In this work we investigate the use of deep learning for distortion-generic blind image quality assessment. We report on different design choices, ranging from the use of features extracted from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

An important scenario for image quality assessment (IQA) is to evaluate image restoration (IR) algorithms. The state-of-the-art approaches adopt a full-reference paradigm that compares restored images with their corresponding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Heliang Zheng , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jiebo Luo

Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to estimate human perception based image visual quality. Although existing deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown significant effectiveness for tackling the IQA problem, it still needs to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

In the field of Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA), accurately predicting the perceptual quality of authentically distorted images remains highly challenging due to the diverse and complex distortions present in natural environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yu Li , Puchao Zhou , Yachun Mi , Yanfeng Wu , Xiaoming Wang , Shaohui Liu

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques have seen steady improvements over recent years, but their performance still deteriorates if the input face samples are not properly aligned. This alignment sensitivity comes from the fact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Žiga Babnik , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

The optimization objective of regression-based blind image quality assessment (IQA) models is to minimize the mean prediction error across the training dataset, which can lead to biased parameter estimation due to potential training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaoqi Wang , Jian Xiong , Hao Gao , Weisi Lin

Blind Image Quality Assessment, aiming to replicate human perception of visual quality without reference, plays a key role in vision tasks, yet existing models often fail to effectively capture subtle distortion cues, leading to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bohan Fu , Guanyi Qin , Fazhan Zhang , Zihao Huang , Mingxuan Li , Runze Hu

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

The assessment of the perceptual quality of digital images is becoming increasingly important as a result of the widespread use of digital multimedia devices. Smartphones and high-speed internet are just two examples of technologies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Nisar Ahmed , Shahzad Asif

Image quality assessment (IQA) continues to garner great interest in the research community, particularly given the tremendous rise in consumer video capture and streaming. Despite significant research effort in IQA in the past few decades,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Prajna Paramita Dash , Akshaya Mishra , Alexander Wong

Full-Reference image quality assessment (FR IQA) is important for image compression, restoration and generative modeling, yet current neural metrics remain slow and vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. We present BiRQA, a compact FR IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Aleksandr Gushchin , Dmitriy S. Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova