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No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims at estimating image quality in accordance with subjective human perception. However, most methods focus on exploring increasingly complex networks to improve the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ronghua Liao , Chen Hui , Lang Yuan , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang

The quality of visual input is very important for both human and machine perception. Consequently many processing techniques exist that deal with different distortions. Usually image processing is applied freely and lacks redundancy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Sascha Xu , Jan Bauer , Benjamin Axmann

Visual quality evaluation is one of the challenging basic problems in image processing. It also plays a central role in the shaping, implementation, optimization, and testing of many methods. The existing image quality assessment methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Giuliana Ramella

Scale-invariance is an open problem in many computer vision subfields. For example, object labels should remain constant across scales, yet model predictions diverge in many cases. This problem gets harder for tasks where the ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Oliver Wiedemann , Vlad Hosu , Shaolin Su , Dietmar Saupe

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with reference images have achieved great success by imitating the human vision system, in which the image quality is effectively assessed by comparing the query image with its pristine reference image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Xiawu Zheng , Runze Hu , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Yan Zhang , Rongrong Ji

Blind image quality assessment (IQA) in the wild, which assesses the quality of images with complex authentic distortions and no reference images, presents significant challenges. Given the difficulty in collecting large-scale training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Honghao Fu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

The rapid advancement of AI-generated image (AIGI) models presents new challenges for evaluating image quality, particularly across three aspects: perceptual quality, prompt correspondence, and authenticity. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chuan Cui , Kejiang Chen , Zhihua Wei , Wen Shen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision that has witnessed remarkable progress with deep neural networks. Inspired by the characteristics of the human visual system, existing methods typically use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chaofeng Chen , Jiadi Mo , Jingwen Hou , Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Action quality assessment (AQA) applies computer vision to quantitatively assess the performance or execution of a human action. Current AQA approaches are end-to-end neural models, which lack transparency and tend to be biased because they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Lauren Okamoto , Paritosh Parmar

Following the major successes of self-attention and Transformers for image analysis, we investigate the use of such attention mechanisms in the context of Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and propose a novel full-reference IQA method, Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Andrei Chubarau , James Clark

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to automatically evaluate the perceived quality of a single image, whose performance has been improved by deep learning-based methods in recent years. However, the paucity of labeled data somewhat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Kai Zhao , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Mading Li , Xing Wen

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

The rapid advancement of AI-driven visual generation technologies has catalyzed significant breakthroughs in image manipulation, particularly in achieving photorealistic localized editing effects on natural scene images (NSIs). Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiaying Qian , Ziheng Jia , Zicheng Zhang , Zeyu Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Efficient audio quality assessment is vital for streamlining audio codec development. Objective assessment tools have been developed over time to algorithmically predict quality ratings from subjective assessments, the gold standard for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Pablo M. Delgado , Jürgen Herre

The performance of face analysis and recognition systems depends on the quality of the acquired face data, which is influenced by numerous factors. Automatically assessing the quality of face data in terms of biometric utility can thus be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Torsten Schlett , Christian Rathgeb , Olaf Henniger , Javier Galbally , Julian Fierrez , Christoph Busch

Blind omnidirectional image quality assessment (BOIQA) presents a great challenge to the visual quality assessment community, due to different storage formats and diverse user viewing behaviors. The main paradigm of BOIQA models includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiebin Yan , Kangcheng Wu , Jingwen Hou , Jiayu Zhang , Pengfei Chen , Yuming Fang

It is well-known that there is no universal metric for image quality evaluation. In this case, distortion-specific metrics can be more reliable. The artifact imposed by image compression can be considered as a combination of various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 S. Farhad Hosseini-Benvidi , Hossein Motamednia , Azadeh Mansouri , Mohammadreza Raei , Ahmad Mahmoudi-Aznaveh

Contemporary face recognition (FR) models achieve near-ideal recognition performance in constrained settings, yet do not fully translate the performance to unconstrained (realworld) scenarios. To help improve the performance and stability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Žiga Babnik , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc

Image recognition and quality assessment are two important viewing tasks, while potentially following different visual mechanisms. This paper investigates if the two tasks can be performed in a multitask learning manner. A sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Junyong You , Zheng Zhang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) measures and predicts perceived image quality by human observers. Although recent studies have highlighted the critical influence that variations in the scale of an image have on its perceived quality, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Vlad Hosu , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Daisuke Iso , Dietmar Saupe