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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

Recent years have witnessed remarkable achievements in perceptual image restoration (IR), creating an urgent demand for accurate image quality assessment (IQA), which is essential for both performance comparison and algorithm optimization.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiangfei Sheng , Xiaofeng Pan , Zhichao Yang , Pengfei Chen , Leida Li

The design of image and video quality assessment (QA) algorithms is extremely important to benchmark and calibrate user experience in modern visual systems. A major drawback of the state-of-the-art QA methods is their limited ability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Shankhanil Mitra , Diptanu De , Shika Rao , Rajiv Soundararajan

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and widespread use of smartphones have resulted in an exponential growth of image data, both real (camera-captured) and virtual (AI-generated). This surge underscores the critical need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhiqiang Lao , Heather Yu

AI-based image enhancement techniques have been widely adopted in various visual applications, significantly improving the perceptual quality of user-generated content (UGC). However, the lack of specialized quality assessment models has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Jun Chen , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

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

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is of great value in the workflow of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-based analysis. Blind IQA (BIQA) methods are especially required since high-quality reference MRI images are usually not available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Kehan Qi , Haoran Li , Chuyu Rong , Yu Gong , Cheng Li , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

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

Automatic image aesthetics assessment is a computer vision problem dealing with categorizing images into different aesthetic levels. The categorization is usually done by analyzing an input image and computing some measure of the degree to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Abbas Anwar , Saira Kanwal , Muhammad Tahir , Muhammad Saqib , Muhammad Uzair , Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani , Habib Ullah

Automatically learned quality assessment for images has recently become a hot topic due to its usefulness in a wide variety of applications such as evaluating image capture pipelines, storage techniques and sharing media. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Hossein Talebi , Peyman Milanfar

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a challenging task that requires training on massive datasets to achieve accurate predictions. However, due to the lack of IQA data, deep learning-based IQA methods typically rely on pre-trained networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xinpeng Li , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

With the rapid advancement of Vision Language Models (VLMs), VLM-based Image Quality Assessment (IQA) seeks to describe image quality linguistically to align with human expression and capture the multifaceted nature of IQA tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhiyuan You , Jinjin Gu , Xin Cai , Zheyuan Li , Kaiwen Zhu , Chao Dong , Tianfan Xue

In object recognition applications, object images usually appear with different quality levels. Practically, it is very important to indicate object image qualities for better application performance, e.g. filtering out low-quality object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Jing Lu , Baorui Zou , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Shuigeng Zhou , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

To display low-quality broadcast content on high-resolution screens in full-screen format, the application of Super-Resolution (SR), a key consumer technology, is essential. Recently, SR methods have been developed that not only increase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Yongrok Kim , Junha Shin , Juhyun Lee , Hyunsuk Ko

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

Over the past decades, numerous Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models have emerged, aiming to predict the perceptual quality of images. However, individual models are often biased toward certain types of image content or distortions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongling Wang , Raymond Zhou , Shahrukh Athar , Wenbo Yang , Zhou Wang

Image quality assessment is a fundamental problem in the field of image processing, and due to the lack of reference images in most practical scenarios, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), has gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

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