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Over the last few years, deep learning based approaches have achieved outstanding improvements in natural image matting. Many of these methods can generate visually plausible alpha estimations, but typically yield blurry structures or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yaoyi Li , Hongtao Lu

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

Traditional in the wild image quality assessment (IQA) models are generally trained with the quality labels of mean opinion score (MOS), while missing the rich subjective quality information contained in the quality ratings, for example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiongkuo Min , Yixuan Gao , Yuqin Cao , Guangtao Zhai , Wenjun Zhang , Huifang Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently shown remarkable promise in low-level visual perception tasks, particularly in Image Quality Assessment (IQA), demonstrating strong zero-shot capability. However, achieving state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kang Fu , Huiyu Duan , Zicheng Zhang , Yucheng Zhu , Jun Zhao , Xiongkuo Min , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Most modern No-Reference Image-Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) metrics are based on neural networks vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Attacks on such metrics lead to incorrect image/video quality predictions, which poses significant risks,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Mikhail Pautov , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

Image quality assessment (IQA) is traditionally classified into full-reference (FR) IQA and no-reference (NR) IQA according to whether the original image is required. Although NR-IQA is widely used in practical applications, room for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Haoyi Liang , Daniel S. Weller

Machine learning models struggle with generalization when encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) samples with unexpected distribution shifts. For vision tasks, recent studies have shown that test-time adaptation employing diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yun-Yun Tsai , Fu-Chen Chen , Albert Y. C. Chen , Junfeng Yang , Che-Chun Su , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo

Semantic segmentation is an extensively studied task in computer vision, with numerous methods proposed every year. Thanks to the advent of deep learning in semantic segmentation, the performance on existing benchmarks is close to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Jiebin Yan , Yu Zhong , Yuming Fang , Zhangyang Wang , Kede Ma

Real-world data is extremely imbalanced and presents a long-tailed distribution, resulting in models that are biased towards classes with sufficient samples and perform poorly on rare classes. Recent methods propose to rebalance classes but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Weiqi Li , Fan Lyu , Fanhua Shang , Liang Wan , Wei Feng

Deep learning based single image super-resolution models have been widely studied and superb results are achieved in upscaling low-resolution images with fixed scale factor and downscaling degradation kernel. To improve real world…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Zhihong Pan , Baopu Li , Dongliang He , Mingde Yao , Wenhao Wu , Tianwei Lin , Xin Li , Errui Ding

Efficient on-device models have become attractive for near-sensor insight generation, of particular interest to the ecological conservation community. For this reason, deep learning researchers are proposing more approaches to develop lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Emmanuel Azuh Mensah , Joban Mand , Yueheng Ou , Min Jang , Kurtis Heimerl

We propose a new approach to determine correspondences between image pairs in the wild under large changes in illumination, viewpoint, context, and material. While other approaches find correspondences between pairs of images by treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Olivia Wiles , Sebastien Ehrhardt , Andrew Zisserman

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

Deepfake has recently raised a plethora of societal concerns over its possible security threats and dissemination of fake information. Much research on deepfake detection has been undertaken. However, detecting low quality as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Binh M. Le , Simon S. Woo

We introduce the AIM 2024 UHD-IQA Challenge, a competition to advance the No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) task for modern, high-resolution photos. The challenge is based on the recently released UHD-IQA Benchmark Database,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Vlad Hosu , Marcos V. Conde , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Radu Timofte

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

Fine-grained bird species identification in the wild is frequently unanswerable from a single image: key cues may be non-visual (e.g. vocalization), or obscured due to occlusion, camera angle, or low resolution. Yet today's multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Logan Lawrence , Mustafa Chasmai , Rangel Daroya , Wuao Liu , Seoyun Jeong , Aaron Sun , Max Hamilton , Fabien Delattre , Oindrila Saha , Subhransu Maji , Grant Van Horn

An accurate computational model for image quality assessment (IQA) benefits many vision applications, such as image filtering, image processing, and image generation. Although the study of face images is an important subfield in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Shaolin Su , Hanhe Lin , Vlad Hosu , Oliver Wiedemann , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , Hantao Liu , Yanning Zhang , Dietmar Saupe

With the rapid development of technology in the field of AI, deepfake technology has emerged as a double-edged sword. It has not only created a large amount of AI-generated content but also posed unprecedented challenges to digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xiaoya Zhu , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is susceptible to poor transferability when the distribution shift occurs, e.g., from synthesis degradation to authentic degradation. To mitigate this, some studies have attempted to design unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Xin Li , Yiting Lu , Zhibo Chen