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In this paper we investigate into the problem of image quality assessment (IQA) and enhancement via machine learning. This issue has long attracted a wide range of attention in computational intelligence and image processing communities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ke Gu , Dacheng Tao , Junfei Qiao , Weisi Lin

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) is essential for reliable face recognition systems. Current approaches primarily exploit only final-layer representations, while training-free methods require multiple forward passes or backpropagation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Guray Ozgur , Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Existing learning-based methods for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) are heavily dependent on large amounts of annotated training data, and usually suffer from a severe performance degradation when encountering the domain/distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jianzhao Liu , Xin Li , Shukun An , Zhibo Chen

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

A key challenge in lifelong imitation learning (LIL) is enabling agents to acquire new skills from expert demonstrations while retaining prior knowledge. This requires preserving the low-dimensional manifolds and geometric structures that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kaushik Roy , Giovanni D'urso , Nicholas Lawrance , Brendan Tidd , Peyman Moghadam

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) constitutes a fundamental task within the field of computer vision, yet it remains an unresolved challenge, owing to the intricate distortion conditions, diverse image contents, and limited availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Kangmin Xu , Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Chaofeng Chen , Haoning Wu , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an important research topic for understanding and improving visual experience. The current state-of-the-art IQA methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The performance of CNN-based models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Junjie Ke , Qifei Wang , Yilin Wang , Peyman Milanfar , Feng Yang

Despite the impressive performance of large multimodal models (LMMs) in high-level visual tasks, their capacity for image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited. One main reason is that LMMs are primarily trained for high-level tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Baoliang Chen , Siyi Pan , Dongxu Wu , Liang Xie , Xiangjie Sui , Lingyu Zhu , Hanwei Zhu

Developing effective approaches to generate enhanced results that align well with human visual preferences for high-quality well-lit images remains a challenge in low-light image enhancement (LLIE). In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaorui Zhao , Xinyue Zhou , Peibei Cao , Junyu Lou , Shuhang Gu

Although recent efforts in image quality assessment (IQA) have achieved promising performance, there still exists a considerable gap compared to the human visual system (HVS). One significant disparity lies in humans' seamless transition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yi Ke Yun , Weisi Lin

Deep learning-based quality metrics have recently given significant improvement in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). In the field of stereoscopic vision, information is evenly distributed with slight disparity to the left and right eyes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Oussama Messai , Aladine Chetouani

Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to uncertainties surrounding the quality of the captured facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in image quality assessment (IQA) tasks. However, adapting such large-scale models is computationally expensive and still relies on substantial Mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xinyue Li , Zhichao Zhang , Zhiming Xu , Shubo Xu , Xiongkuo Min , Yitong Chen , Guangtao Zhai

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Previous methods typically focus on predicting numerical scores without explanation or providing low-level descriptions lacking precise scores. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Guoqiang Liang , Jianyi Wang , Zhonghua Wu , Shangchen Zhou

Completely blind video quality assessment (VQA) refers to a class of quality assessment methods that do not use any reference videos, human opinion scores or training videos from the target database to learn a quality model. The design of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Shankhanil Mitra , Rajiv Soundararajan

Recently, image quality assessment (IQA) has achieved remarkable progress with the success of deep learning. However, the strict pre-condition of full-reference (FR) methods has limited its application in real scenarios. And the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Jingyu Guo , Wei Wang , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jie Zhou

Visual Question Answering (VQA) based on multi-modal data facilitates real-life applications such as home robots and medical diagnoses. One significant challenge is to devise a robust decentralized learning framework for various client…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai

Understanding semantic information is an essential step in knowing what is being learned in both full-reference (FR) and no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) methods. However, especially for many severely distorted images, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Pengxiang Xiao , Shuai He , Limin Liu , Anlong Ming

Image quality assessment (IQA) and image restoration are fundamental problems in low-level vision. Although IQA and restoration are closely connected conceptually, most existing work treats them in isolation. Recent advances in unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Weiqi Li , Xuanyu Zhang , Bin Chen , Jingfen Xie , Yan Wang , Kexin Zhang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Jian Zhang , Shijie Zhao

Millions of cameras at edge are being deployed to power a variety of different deep learning applications. However, the frames captured by these cameras are not always pristine - they can be distorted due to lighting issues, sensor noise,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Sibendu Paul , Utsav Drolia , Y. Charlie Hu , Srimat T. Chakradhar