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Many super-resolution (SR) algorithms have been proposed to increase image resolution. However, full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) metrics for comparing and evaluating different SR algorithms are limited. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yixiao Li , Xiaoyuan Yang , Guanghui Yue , Jun Fu , Qiuping Jiang , Xu Jia , Paul L. Rosin , Hantao Liu , Wei Zhou

The content and distortion are widely recognized as the two primary factors affecting the visual quality of an image. While existing No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods have modeled these factors, they fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shuai Liu , Qingyu Mao , Chao Li , Jiacong Chen , Fanyang Meng , Yonghong Tian , Yongsheng Liang

Real-world image restoration aims to restore high-quality (HQ) images from degraded low-quality (LQ) inputs captured under uncontrolled conditions. Existing methods typically depend on ground-truth (GT) supervision, assuming that GT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fengyang Xiao , Peng Hu , Lei Xu , XingE Guo , Guanyi Qin , Yuqi Shen , Chengyu Fang , Rihan Zhang , Chunming He , Sina Farsiu

In this paper, we propose a novel parameter-efficient adaptation method for No- Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) using visual prompts optimized in pixel-space. Unlike full fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yahya Benmahane , Mohammed El Hassouni

In no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), the challenge of limited dataset sizes hampers the development of robust and generalizable models. Conventional methods address this issue by utilizing large datasets to extract rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Daekyu Kwon , Dongyoung Kim , Sehwan Ki , Younghyun Jo , Hyong-Euk Lee , Seon Joo Kim

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA), responsible for assessing the quality of a single input image without using any reference, plays a critical role in evaluating and optimizing computer vision systems, e.g., low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Xun Lin , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-peng Tan , Alex Kot

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

The process of rendering high dynamic range (HDR) images to be viewed on conventional displays is called tone mapping. However, tone mapping introduces distortions in the final image which may lead to visual displeasure. To quantify these…

No-reference point cloud quality assessment (NR-PCQA) aims to automatically evaluate the perceptual quality of distorted point clouds without available reference, which have achieved tremendous improvements due to the utilization of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Ziyu Shan , Yujie Zhang , Qi Yang , Haichen Yang , Yiling Xu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiaozhong Xu , Shan Liu

Perceptual image restoration seeks for high-fidelity images that most likely degrade to given images. For better visual quality, previous work proposed to search for solutions within the natural image manifold, by exploiting the latent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Chaoyi Han , Yiping Duan , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu

Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithm aims to quantify the human perception of image quality. Unfortunately, there is a performance drop when assessing the distortion images generated by generative adversarial network (GAN) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Shuwei Shi , Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Jiahao Wang , Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang

In this paper, we quest the capability of transferring the quality of natural scene images to the images that are not acquired by optical cameras (e.g., screen content images, SCIs), rooted in the widely accepted view that the human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Baoliang Chen , Haoliang Li , Hongfei Fan , Shiqi Wang

This paper reports on the NTIRE 2022 challenge on perceptual image quality assessment (IQA), held in conjunction with the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop (NTIRE) workshop at CVPR 2022. This challenge is held to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Chao Dong , Jimmy S. Ren , Radu Timofte

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

In this work, we introduce Gradient Siamese Network (GSN) for image quality assessment. The proposed method is skilled in capturing the gradient features between distorted images and reference images in full-reference image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Heng Cong , Lingzhi Fu , Rongyu Zhang , Yusheng Zhang , Hao Wang , Jiarong He , Jin Gao

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

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

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

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

Generative super-resolution (GSR) currently sets the state-of-the-art in terms of perceptual image quality, overcoming the "regression-to-the-mean" blur of prior non-generative models. However, from a human perspective, such models do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Weiming Ren , Raghav Goyal , Zhiming Hu , Tristan Ty Aumentado-Armstrong , Iqbal Mohomed , Alex Levinshtein