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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

Performance of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models has been significantly boosted by end-to-end optimization of feature engineering and quality regression. Nevertheless, due to the distributional shift between images simulated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma

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

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to predict perceptual image quality scores without access to reference images. State-of-the-art BIQA methods typically require subjects to score a large number of images to train a robust model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Fei Gao , Dacheng Tao , Xinbo Gao , Xuelong Li

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is essential for automatically evaluating the perceptual quality of visual signals without access to the references. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive analysis and discussion of recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Miaohui Wang

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA), which aims to accurately predict the image quality without any pristine reference information, has been extensively concerned in the past decades. Especially, with the help of deep neural networks,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Qiuping Jiang , Jiawu Xu , Yudong Mao , Wei Zhou , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) plays a crucial role in evaluating and optimizing visual experience. Most existing BIQA approaches fuse shallow and deep features extracted from backbone networks, while overlooking the unequal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Long Tang , Guoquan Zhen , Jie Hao , Jianbo Zhang , Huiyu Duan , Liang Yuan , Guangtao Zhai

The enormous space and diversity of natural images is usually represented by a few small-scale human-rated image quality assessment (IQA) datasets. This casts great challenges to deep neural network (DNN) based blind IQA (BIQA), which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Shahrukh Athar , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

The explosive growth of image data facilitates the fast development of image processing and computer vision methods for emerging visual applications, meanwhile introducing novel distortions to the processed images. This poses a grand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Chao Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Although many effective models and real-world datasets have been presented for blind image quality assessment (BIQA), recent BIQA models usually tend to fit specific training set. Hence, it is still difficult to accurately and robustly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuan Chen , Zhiliang Ma , Yang Zhao

In this work we investigate the use of deep learning for distortion-generic blind image quality assessment. We report on different design choices, ranging from the use of features extracted from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to estimate human perception based image visual quality. Although existing deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown significant effectiveness for tackling the IQA problem, it still needs to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved impressive results today, but not all generated images are perfect. A number of quantitative criteria have recently emerged for generative model, but none of them are designed for a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Qingyi Pan , Ning Guo , Letu Qingge , Jingyi Zhang , Pei Yang

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods often incorporate auxiliary tasks to improve performance. However, existing approaches face limitations due to insufficient integration and a lack of flexible uncertainty estimation, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yiwei Lou , Yuanpeng He , Rongchao Zhang , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Yu Huang

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is a challenging problem with important real-world applications. Recent efforts attempting to exploit powerful representations by deep neural networks (DNN) are hindered by the lack of subjectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zehong Zhou , Fei Zhou , Guoping Qiu

Image quality assessment (IQA) continues to garner great interest in the research community, particularly given the tremendous rise in consumer video capture and streaming. Despite significant research effort in IQA in the past few decades,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Prajna Paramita Dash , Akshaya Mishra , Alexander Wong

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

Traditional deep neural network (DNN)-based image quality assessment (IQA) models leverage convolutional neural networks (CNN) or Transformer to learn the quality-aware feature representation, achieving commendable performance on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Puyi Wang , Wei Sun , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Yanwei Jiang , Zhichao Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai