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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

Measuring the perceptual quality of images automatically is an essential task in the area of computer vision, as degradations on image quality can exist in many processes from image acquisition, transmission to enhancing. Many Image Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jing Wang , Haotian Fan , Xiaoxia Hou , Yitian Xu , Tao Li , Xuechao Lu , Lean Fu

Recent advancements in the field of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) using deep learning techniques demonstrate high performance across multiple open-source datasets. However, such models are typically very large and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

Reliable image quality assessment is essential in applications where large volumes of images are acquired automatically and must be filtered before further analysis. In many practical scenarios, a pristine reference image is unavailable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Koffi Titus Sergio Aglin , Anthony K. Muchiri , Celestin Nkundineza

Image quality assessment(IQA) is of increasing importance for image-based applications. Its purpose is to establish a model that can replace humans for accurately evaluating image quality. According to whether the reference image is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Lanjiang Wang

This paper uses robust statistics and curvelet transform to learn a general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) model. The new approach, here called M1, competes with the Curvelet Quality Assessment proposed in 2014…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ramon Giostri Campos , Evandro Ottoni Teatini Salles

No reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a task to estimate the perceptual quality of an image without its corresponding original image. It is even more difficult to perform this task in a zero-shot manner, i.e., without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Takamichi Miyata

Development of perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) metrics has been of significant interest to computer vision community. The aim of these metrics is to model quality of an image as perceived by humans. Recent works in Full-reference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Saikat Dutta , Sourya Dipta Das , Nisarg A. Shah

Generally, humans are more skilled at perceiving differences between high-quality (HQ) and low-quality (LQ) images than directly judging the quality of a single LQ image. This situation also applies to image quality assessment (IQA).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Guanghao Yin , Wei Wang , Zehuan Yuan , Chuchu Han , Wei Ji , Shouqian Sun , Changhu Wang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods typically overlook local manifold structures, leading to compromised discriminative capabilities in perceptual quality evaluation. To address this limitation, we present LML-IQA, an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zihao Huang , Runze Hu , Timin Gao , Yan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li

With the rising demand for high-resolution (HR) images, No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) gains more attention, as it can ecaluate image quality in real-time on mobile devices and enhance user experience. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zewen Chen , Sunhan Xu , Yun Zeng , Haochen Guo , Jian Guo , Shuai Liu , Juan Wang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Dehua Liu , Hesong Li

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to simulate the process of perceiving image quality aligned with subjective human perception. However, existing NR-IQA methods either focus on global representations that leads to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang , Yachun Mi , Wei Zhang , Shaohui Liu

We consider the problem of obtaining image quality representations in a self-supervised manner. We use prediction of distortion type and degree as an auxiliary task to learn features from an unlabeled image dataset containing a mixture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods achieve high-precision evaluation by analysing feature differences between reference and distorted images. However, their performance is constrained by the quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xuting Lan , Mingliang Zhou , Xuekai Wei , Jielu Yan , Yueting Huang , Huayan Pu , Jun Luo , Weijia Jia

Image quality assessment (IQA) continues to garner great interest in the research community, particularly given the tremendous rise in consumer video capture and streaming. Despite significant research effort in IQA in the past few decades,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Prajna Paramita Dash , Akshaya Mishra , Alexander Wong

A long-held challenge in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) learning from human subjective perception is the lack of objective generalization to unseen natural distortions. To address this, we integrate a novel Depth-Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vaishnav Ramesh , Junliang Liu , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

Visual (image, video) quality assessments can be modelled by visual features in different domains, e.g., spatial, frequency, and temporal domains. Perceptual mechanisms in the human visual system (HVS) play a crucial role in generation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Junyong You , Zheng Zhang

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

Existing free-energy guided No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods still suffer from finding a balance between learning feature information at the pixel level of the image and capturing high-level feature information and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoyang Wang , Bo Hu , Mingyang Zhang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

Accurate measurement of image quality without reference signals remains a fundamental challenge in low-level visual perception applications. In this paper, we propose a global-local progressive integration model that addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiaoqi Wang , Yun Zhang