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As super-resolution (SR) techniques advance, we observe a growing distrust of evaluation metrics in recent SR research. An inconsistency often emerges between certain evaluation criteria and human perceptual preference. Although current SR…

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Image quality assessment (IQA) represents a pivotal challenge in image-focused technologies, significantly influencing the advancement trajectory of image processing and computer vision. Recently, IQA has witnessed a notable surge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengqian Ma , Zhengyi Shi , Zhiqiang Lu , Shenghao Xie , Fei Chao , Yao Sui

Reasoning-induced vision-language models (VLMs) advance image quality assessment (IQA) with textual reasoning, yet their scalar scores often lack sensitivity and collapse to a few values, so-called discrete collapse. We introduce ME-IQA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kanglong Fan , Tianhe Wu , Wen Wen , Jianzhao Liu , Le Yang , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empowered Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to achieve superior human preference alignment in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, existing RL-based IQA models typically rely on coarse-grained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Xiang Li , Xueheng Li , Yu Wang , Xuanhua He , Zhangchi Hu , Weiwei Yu , Chengjun Xie

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 of great value in the workflow of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-based analysis. Blind IQA (BIQA) methods are especially required since high-quality reference MRI images are usually not available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Kehan Qi , Haoran Li , Chuyu Rong , Yu Gong , Cheng Li , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) focuses on designing methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception when a high-quality reference image is unavailable. Most state-of-the-art NR-IQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aim to simulate human subjective perception of image visual quality and aesthetic appeal. Despite distinct learning objectives, they have underlying interconnectedness due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hantao Zhou , Longxiang Tang , Rui Yang , Guanyi Qin , Yan Zhang , Yutao Li , Xiu Li , Runze Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) plays a crucial role in evaluating and optimizing visual experience. Most existing BIQA approaches fuse shallow and deep features extracted from backbone networks, while overlooking the unequal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Long Tang , Guoquan Zhen , Jie Hao , Jianbo Zhang , Huiyu Duan , Liang Yuan , Guangtao Zhai

Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between visual images and their perceptual quality by human observers. IQA modeling plays a special bridging role between vision science and engineering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

Image quality assessment (IQA) is crucial in the evaluation stage of novel algorithms operating on images, including traditional and machine learning based methods. Due to the lack of available quality-rated medical images, most commonly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Anna Breger , Janek Gröhl , Clemens Karner , Thomas R Else , Ian Selby , Tom Rix , Lara-Sophie Witt , Merle Duchêne , Jonathan Weir-McCall , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate image quality in line with human perception, without reference benchmarks. Currently, deep learning BIQA methods typically depend on using features from high-level tasks for transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Xiawu Zheng , Yutao Liu , ShengChuan Zhang , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

Super-resolution (SR) applied to real-world low-resolution (LR) images often results in complex, irregular degradations that stem from the inherent complexity of natural scene acquisition. In contrast to SR artifacts arising from synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kian Majlessi , Amir Masoud Soltani , Mohammad Ebrahim Mahdavi , Aurelien Gourrier , Peyman Adibi

With the development of multimedia technology, Augmented Reality (AR) has become a promising next-generation mobile platform. The primary value of AR is to promote the fusion of digital contents and real-world environments, however, studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Yucheng Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Patrick Le Callet

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

Recent advances in reasoning-induced image quality assessment (IQA) have demonstrated the power of reinforcement learning to rank (RL2R) for training vision-language models (VLMs) to assess perceptual quality. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiangyong Chen , Xiaochuan Lin , Haoran Liu , Xuan Li , Yichen Su , Xiangwei Guo

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

In this paper, we propose an image quality transformer (IQT) that successfully applies a transformer architecture to a perceptual full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) task. Perceptual representation becomes more important in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Manri Cheon , Sung-Jun Yoon , Byungyeon Kang , Junwoo Lee

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 (IQA) plays a vital role in applications such as image compression, restoration, and multimedia streaming. However, existing metrics often struggle to generalize across diverse image types - particularly between…

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