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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a core task in computer vision. Multimodal methods based on vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities in IQA tasks. To address the issues of excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yongkang Hou , Jiarun Song

Objective image quality assessment (IQA) is imperative in the current multimedia-intensive world, in order to assess the visual quality of an image at close to a human level of ability. Many~parameters such as color intensity, structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Md Abu Layek , Sanjida Afroz , TaeChoong Chung , Eui-Nam Huh

Assessing the quality of artificial intelligence-generated images (AIGIs) plays a crucial role in their application in real-world scenarios. However, traditional image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms primarily focus on low-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yu Tian , Yixuan Li , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

Progress in lighting estimation is tracked by computing existing image quality assessment (IQA) metrics on images from standard datasets. While this may appear to be a reasonable approach, we demonstrate that doing so does not correlate to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Justine Giroux , Mohammad Reza Karimi Dastjerdi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean-François Lalonde

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khaled Abud , Sergey Lavrushkin , Alexey Kirillov , Dmitriy Vatolin

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) -- the ability to quantify the quality of human motion, actions, or skill levels and provide feedback -- has far-reaching implications in areas such as low-cost physiotherapy, sports training, and workforce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hao Yin , Paritosh Parmar , Daoliang Xu , Yang Zhang , Tianyou Zheng , Weiwei Fu

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

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) techniques compare a reference and a distorted/test image and predict the perceptual quality of the test image in terms of a scalar value representing an objective score. The evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Ashirbani Saha , Q. M. Jonathan Wu

As an affordable and convenient eye scan, fundus photography holds the potential for preventing vision impairment, especially in resource-limited regions. However, fundus image degradation is common under intricate imaging environments,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Heng Li , Haojin Li , Mingyang Ou , Xiangyang Yu , Xiaoqing Zhang , Ke Niu , Huazhu Fu , Jiang Liu

The rapid expansion of mobile internet has resulted in a substantial increase in user-generated content (UGC) images, thereby making the thorough assessment of UGC images both urgent and essential. Recently, multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingxing Li , Rui Wang , Lei Sun , Yancheng Bai , Xiangxiang Chu

Image quality plays an important role in the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) that have been widely shown to exhibit sensitivity to changes in imaging conditions. Conventional image quality assessment (IQA) seeks to measure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

Omnidirectional images and videos can provide immersive experience of real-world scenes in Virtual Reality (VR) environment. We present a perceptual omnidirectional image quality assessment (IQA) study in this paper since it is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min , Yucheng Zhu , Yi Fang , Xiaokang Yang

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

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

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

Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean Ponce

In this paper, we consider image quality assessment (IQA) as a measure of how images are amenable with respect to a given downstream task, or task amenability. When the task is performed using machine learning algorithms, such as a…

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

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

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