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To support the application scenarios where high-resolution (HR) images are urgently needed, various single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms are developed. However, SISR is an ill-posed inverse problem, which may bring artifacts like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wenhan Zhu , Tao Wang , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

With the rapid growth of User-Generated Content (UGC) exchanged between users and sharing platforms, the need for video quality assessment in the wild is increasingly evident. UGC is typically acquired using consumer devices and undergoes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , David Bull

Image quality that is consistent with human opinion is assessed by a perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) that defines/utilizes a computational model. A good model should take effectiveness and efficiency into consideration, but most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Huizhen Jia , Lu Zhang , Tonghan Wang

Among the various means to evaluate the quality of video streams, No-Reference (NR) methods have low computation and may be executed on thin clients. Thus, NR algorithms would be perfect candidates in cases of real-time quality assessment,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Maria Torres Vega , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Antonio Liotta

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is a task that predicts the perceptual quality of an image without its reference. Research on BIQA attracts growing attention due to the increasing amount of user-generated images and emerging mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , Xingze He , Yong Yan , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to predict the utility of a face image for face recognition (FR) systems. State-of-the-art FIQA methods mainly rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), leaving the potential of Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrea Atzori , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

With the inclusion of camera in daily life, an automatic no reference image quality evaluation index is required for automatic classification of images. The present manuscripts proposes a new No Reference Regional Mutual Information based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Vinay Kumar , Vivek Singh Bawa , Rahul Upadhyay

The objective of non-reference video quality assessment is to evaluate the quality of distorted video without access to reference high-definition references. In this study, we introduce an enhanced spatial perception module, pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zihao Yu , Fengbin Guan , Yiting Lu , Xin Li , Zhibo Chen

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent perceptual IR algorithms based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) have brought in significant improvement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

We propose a novel certified defense method for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models based on randomized smoothing with noise applied in the feature space rather than the input space. Unlike prior approaches that inject Gaussian noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

Prompt-based methods, which encode medical priors through descriptive text, have been only minimally explored for CT Image Quality Assessment (IQA). While such prompts can embed prior knowledge about diagnostic quality, they often introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kazi Ramisa Rifa , Jie Zhang , Abdullah Imran

Image quality assessment (IQA) plays a critical role in optimizing radiation dose and developing novel medical imaging techniques in computed tomography (CT). Traditional IQA methods relying on hand-crafted features have limitations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Tao Song , Ruizhi Hou , Lisong Dai , Lei Xiang

With the increasing demand for image-based applications, the efficient and reliable evaluation of image quality has increased in importance. Measuring the image quality is of fundamental importance for numerous image processing…

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Diffusion-based models have recently revolutionized image generation, achieving unprecedented levels of fidelity. However, consistent generation of high-quality images remains challenging partly due to the lack of conditioning mechanisms…

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Computer graphics images (CGIs) are artificially generated by means of computer programs and are widely perceived under various scenarios, such as games, streaming media, etc. In practice, the quality of CGIs consistently suffers from poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Yingjie Zhou , Jun Jia , Zhichao Zhang , Jing Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

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

Despite substantial progress in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), previous training models often suffer from over-fitting due to the limited scale of used datasets, resulting in model performance bottlenecks. To tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jiamu Sheng , Jiayuan Fan , Peng Ye , Jianjian Cao

Image quality assessment that aims at estimating the subject quality of images, builds models to evaluate the perceptual quality of the image in different applications. Based on the fact that the human visual system (HVS) is highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Congmin Chen , Xuanqin Mou

Subjective perceptual image quality can be assessed in lab studies by human observers. Objective image quality assessment (IQA) refers to algorithms for estimation of the mean subjective quality ratings. Many such methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Markus Wagner , Hanhe Lin , Shujun Li , Dietmar Saupe

Numerous single-image super-resolution algorithms have been proposed in the literature, but few studies address the problem of performance evaluation based on visual perception. While most super-resolution images are evaluated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Chao Ma , Chih-Yuan Yang , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang