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The current state-of-the-art No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods typically rely on feature extraction from upstream semantic backbone networks, assuming that all extracted features are relevant. However, we make a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xudong Li , Timin Gao , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jingyuan Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

We present a deep neural network-based approach to image quality assessment (IQA). The network is trained end-to-end and comprises ten convolutional layers and five pooling layers for feature extraction, and two fully connected layers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sebastian Bosse , Dominique Maniry , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images in accordance with human subjective perception. Unfortunately, existing NR-IQA methods are far from meeting the needs of predicting accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Shuwei Shi , Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Mingdeng Cao , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models aim to predict perceptual image quality in alignment with human judgments. No-Reference (NR) IQA remains particularly challenging due to the absence of a reference image. While deep learning has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Rajesh Sureddi , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Due to the scarcity of labeled samples in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) datasets, numerous recent studies have proposed multi-task based strategies, which explore feature information from other tasks or domains to boost the IQA task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Li Yu

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) has received increasing attention in the IQA community since reference image is not always available. Real-world images generally suffer from various types of distortion. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Fu-Zhao Ou , Yuan-Gen Wang , Jin Li , Guopu Zhu , Sam Kwong

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

In this paper, we propose a no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method via feature level pseudo-reference (PR) hallucination. The proposed quality assessment framework is grounded on the prior models of natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Chenqi Kong , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Zhu Li

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

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

The optimization objective of regression-based blind image quality assessment (IQA) models is to minimize the mean prediction error across the training dataset, which can lead to biased parameter estimation due to potential training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaoqi Wang , Jian Xiong , Hao Gao , Weisi Lin

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to quantify how humans perceive visual distortions of digital images without access to their undistorted references. NR-IQA models are extensively studied in computational vision, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Guodong Guo , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Contrast change is an important factor that affects the quality of images. During image capturing, unfavorable lighting conditions can cause contrast change and visual quality loss. While various methods have been proposed to assess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour , Saeed Mahmoudpour

Recently, increasing interest has been drawn in exploiting deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA). Despite of the notable success achieved, there is a broad consensus that training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Hancheng Zhu , Leida Li , Jinjian Wu , Weisheng Dong , Guangming Shi

Evaluating the perceptual quality of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) images remains a key challenge, particularly in the absence of pixel-aligned ground truth references. Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) methods fail under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Abhijay Ghildyal , Rajesh Sureddi , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Alan Bovik

Assessing the visual quality of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images is an unexplored and an interesting research topic that has become relevant with the current boom in HDR technology. We propose a new convolutional neural network based model…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux , Irene Cheng

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to estimate perceptual quality without access to a reference image of pristine quality. Learning an NR-IQA model faces a fundamental bottleneck: its need for a large number of costly human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahdi Naseri , Zhou Wang

Generative models for image restoration, enhancement, and generation have significantly improved the quality of the generated images. Surprisingly, these models produce more pleasant images to the human eye than other methods, yet, they may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Marcos V. Conde , Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

Face swapping has become a prominent research area in computer vision and image processing due to rapid technological advancements. The metric of measuring the quality in most face swapping methods relies on several distances between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xinghui Zhou , Wenbo Zhou , Tianyi Wei , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu