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Action Quality Assessment(AQA) is important for action understanding and resolving the task poses unique challenges due to subtle visual differences. Existing state-of-the-art methods typically rely on the holistic video representations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yang Bai , Desen Zhou , Songyang Zhang , Jian Wang , Errui Ding , Yu Guan , Yang Long , Jingdong Wang

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, named Iwin Transformer, which is specifically designed for human-object interaction (HOI) detection, a detailed scene understanding task involving a sequential process of human/object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Danyang Tu , Xiongkuo Min , Huiyu Duan , Guodong Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Wei Shen

This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method based on image entropy. The image features are extracted from two domains. In the spatial domain, the mutual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xiaoqiao Chen , Qingyi Zhang , Manhui Lin , Guangyi Yang , Chu He

Existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods focus on designing complicated networks based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformer. In addition, some BIQA methods enhance the performance of the model in a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Qunyue Huang , Bin Fang

Robust video scene classification models should capture the spatial (pixel-wise) and temporal (frame-wise) characteristics of a video effectively. Transformer models with self-attention which are designed to get contextualized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Saurabh Sahu , Palash Goyal

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

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to estimate perceptual quality without access to a reference image of pristine quality. Learning an NR-IQA model faces a fundamental bottleneck: its need for a large number of costly human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahdi Naseri , Zhou Wang

Lowering radiation dose per view and utilizing sparse views per scan are two common CT scan modes, albeit often leading to distorted images characterized by noise and streak artifacts. Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) strives to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an important research topic for understanding and improving visual experience. The current state-of-the-art IQA methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The performance of CNN-based models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Junjie Ke , Qifei Wang , Yilin Wang , Peyman Milanfar , Feng Yang

As super-resolution (SR) techniques introduce unique distortions that fundamentally differ from those caused by traditional degradation processes (e.g., compression), there is an increasing demand for specialized video quality assessment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yixiao Li , Xiaoyuan Yang , Weide Liu , Xin Jin , Xu Jia , Yukun Lai , Paul L Rosin , Haotao Liu , Wei Zhou

We propose a flow-guided transformer, which innovatively leverage the motion discrepancy exposed by optical flows to instruct the attention retrieval in transformer for high fidelity video inpainting. More specially, we design a novel flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Kaidong Zhang , Jingjing Fu , Dong Liu

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to simulate the process of perceiving image quality aligned with subjective human perception. However, existing NR-IQA methods either focus on global representations that leads to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang , Yachun Mi , Wei Zhang , Shaohui Liu

In recent years, learned image compression methods have demonstrated superior rate-distortion performance compared to traditional image compression methods. Recent methods utilize convolutional neural networks (CNN), variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Priyanka Mudgal , Feng Liu

BIQA (Blind Image Quality Assessment) is an important field of study that evaluates images automatically. Although significant progress has been made, blind image quality assessment remains a difficult task since images vary in content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Xu Wei , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed , Zhu Shuangtong , Xin Liu , Yimei Xu

The Transformer architecture has achieved significant success in natural language processing, motivating its adaptation to computer vision tasks. Unlike convolutional neural networks, vision transformers inherently capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zherui Zhang , Rongtao Xu , Jie Zhou , Changwei Wang , Xingtian Pei , Wenhao Xu , Jiguang Zhang , Li Guo , Longxiang Gao , Wenbo Xu , Shibiao Xu

Machine vision systems (MVS) are intrinsically vulnerable to performance degradation under adverse visual conditions. To address this, we propose a machine-centric image quality assessment (MIQA) framework that quantifies the impact of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaoqi Wang , Yun Zhang , Weisi Lin

Inspired by recent trends in vision and language learning, we explore applications of attention mechanisms for visio-lingual fusion within an application to story-based video understanding. Like other video-based QA tasks, video story…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Björn Bebensee , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Vision transformer has achieved impressive performance for many vision tasks. However, it may suffer from high redundancy in capturing local features for shallow layers. Local self-attention or early-stage convolutions are thus utilized,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Huaibo Huang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Jie Cao , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

Video quality assessment (VQA) aims to objectively quantify perceptual quality degradation in alignment with human visual perception. Despite recent advances, existing VQA models still suffer from two critical limitations: \textit{poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Linhan Cao , Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Jun Jia , Kaiwei Zhang , Dandan Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Dynamic attention mechanism and global modeling ability make Transformer show strong feature learning ability. In recent years, Transformer has become comparable to CNNs methods in computer vision. This review mainly investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yuting Yang , Licheng Jiao , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Zhixi Feng , Xu Tang