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Objective:To develop a no-reference image quality assessment method using automated distortion recognition to boost MRI-guided radiotherapy precision.Methods:We analyzed 106,000 MR images from 10 patients with liver metastasis,captured with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Zilin Wang , Shengqi Chen , Jianrong Dai , Shirui Qin , Ying Cao , Ruiao Zhao , Guohua Wu , Yuan Tang , Jiayun Chen

Current full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fuse features from reference and distorted images, overlooking that color and luminance distortions occur mainly at low frequencies, whereas edge and texture distortions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Xuekai Wei , Junyu Zhang , Qinlin Hu , Mingliang Zhou\\Yong Feng , Weizhi Xian , Huayan Pu , Sam Kwong

Multi-level deep-features have been driving state-of-the-art methods for aesthetics and image quality assessment (IQA). However, most IQA benchmarks are comprised of artificially distorted images, for which features derived from ImageNet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Hanhe Lin , Vlad Hosu , Dietmar Saupe

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

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

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

Quality assessment of videos is crucial for many computer graphics applications, including video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality, where visual performance has a significant impact on user experience. When test videos cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sipeng Yang , Jiayu Ji , Qingchuan Zhu , Zhiyao Yang , Xiaogang Jin

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

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to predict image quality scores consistent with human perception without relying on pristine reference images, serving as a crucial component in various visual tasks. Ensuring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Chenxi Yang , Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang

Existing deep network-based full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models typically work by performing pairwise comparisons of deep features from the reference and distorted images. In this paper, we approach this problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Zhang , Jielei Chu , Tian Zhang , Lin Ma , Fengmao Lv , Weide Liu , Tianrui Li , Yuming Fang

To guarantee a satisfying Quality of Experience (QoE) for consumers, it is required to measure image quality efficiently and reliably. The neglect of the high-level semantic information may result in predicting a clear blue sky as bad…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-19 Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang , Ming Jiang

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with references plays an important role in optimizing and evaluating computer vision tasks. Traditional methods assume that all pixels of the reference and test images are fully aligned. Such Aligned-Reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Zhou Wang

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

Most modern No-Reference Image-Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) metrics are based on neural networks vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Attacks on such metrics lead to incorrect image/video quality predictions, which poses significant risks,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Mikhail Pautov , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

Image quality assessment (IQA) focuses on the perceptual visual quality of images, playing a crucial role in downstream tasks such as image reconstruction, compression, and generation. The rapid advancement of multi-modal large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Weiqi Li , Xuanyu Zhang , Shijie Zhao , Yabin Zhang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Jian Zhang

The no-reference image quality assessment is a challenging domain that addresses estimating image quality without the original reference. We introduce an improved mechanism to extract local and non-local information from images via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Mohammed Alsaafin , Musab Alsheikh , Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Usman

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a critical task in a wide range of applications but remains challenging due to the subjective nature of human perception and the complexity of real-world image distortions. This study proposes MetaQAP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nisar Ahmed , Gulshan Saleem , Nazik Alturki , Nada Alasbali

We present a no-reference video quality model and algorithm that delivers standout performance for High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos, which we call HDR-ChipQA. HDR videos represent wider ranges of luminances, details, and colors than Standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik