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The learning of hierarchical representations for image classification has experienced an impressive series of successes due in part to the availability of large-scale labeled data for training. On the other hand, the trained classifiers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Haotao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Kede Ma

In this paper, we present a simple yet effective continual learning method for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) with improved quality prediction accuracy, plasticity-stability trade-off, and task-order/-length robustness. The key step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to develop methods that estimate the quality scores of images in the absence of a reference image. In this paper, we approach BIQA from a distortion identification perspective, where our primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sepehr Kazemi Ranjbar , Emad Fatemizadeh

Textual reasoning has recently been widely adopted in Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA). However, it remains unclear how textual information contributes to quality prediction and to what extent text can represent the score-related image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yuan Li , Shin'ya Nishida

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

Lowering radiation dose per view and utilizing sparse views per scan are two common CT scan modes, albeit often leading to distorted images characterized by noise and streak artifacts. Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) strives to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) approaches, while promising for automating image quality evaluation, often fall short in real-world scenarios due to their reliance on a generic quality standard applied uniformly across diverse images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Jean Ponce

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is a challenging problem with important real-world applications. Recent efforts attempting to exploit powerful representations by deep neural networks (DNN) are hindered by the lack of subjectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zehong Zhou , Fei Zhou , Guoping Qiu

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

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) attempts to improve face recognition (FR) performance by providing additional information about sample quality. Because FIQA methods attempt to estimate the utility of a sample for face recognition, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models generally operate by measuring the visual differences between a degraded image and its reference. However, existing FR-IQA models including both the classical ones (eg, PSNR and SSIM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kang Xiao , Xu Wang , Yulin He , Baoliang Chen , Xuelin Shen

The goal in a blind image quality assessment (BIQA) model is to simulate the process of evaluating images by human eyes and accurately assess the quality of the image. Although many approaches effectively identify degradation, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Guangyi Yang , Yang Zhan. , Yuxuan Wang

While recent face recognition (FR) systems achieve excellent results in many deployment scenarios, their performance in challenging real-world settings is still under question. For this reason, face image quality assessment (FIQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

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

Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) plays a pivotal role in evaluating and improving the viewing experience of end-users across a wide range of video-based platforms and services. Contemporary deep learning-based models primarily analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Wen Wen , Mu Li , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Kede Ma

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

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) aims to score how well an action is performed and is widely used in sports analysis, rehabilitation assessment, and human skill evaluation. Multi-modal AQA has recently achieved strong progress by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kanglei Zhou , Chang Li , Qingyi Pan , Liyuan Wang

The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments. Perceptual datasets gathered for this purpose have provided useful benchmarks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) forms a natural and often straightforward undertaking for humans, yet effective automation of the task remains highly challenging. Recent metrics from the deep learning community commonly compare image pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 William Thong , Jose Costa Pereira , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh