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The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments. Perceptual datasets gathered for this purpose have provided useful benchmarks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models aim to predict perceptual image quality in alignment with human judgments. No-Reference (NR) IQA remains particularly challenging due to the absence of a reference image. While deep learning has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Rajesh Sureddi , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms evaluate the perceptual quality of an image using evaluation scores that assess the similarity or difference between two images. We propose a new low-level feature based IQA technique, which applies…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Navaneeth K. Kottayil , Irene Cheng , Frederic Dufaux , Anup Basu

In the field of Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA), accurately predicting the perceptual quality of authentically distorted images remains highly challenging due to the diverse and complex distortions present in natural environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yu Li , Puchao Zhou , Yachun Mi , Yanfeng Wu , Xiaoming Wang , Shaohui Liu

In this paper, we propose a No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NRIQA) guided cut-off point selection (CPS) strategy to enhance the performance of a fine-grained classification system. Scores given by existing NRIQA methods on the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Joseph Smith , Zheming Zuo , Jonathan Stonehouse , Boguslaw Obara

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

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) represents a pivotal challenge in image-focused technologies, significantly influencing the advancement trajectory of image processing and computer vision. Recently, IQA has witnessed a notable surge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengqian Ma , Zhengyi Shi , Zhiqiang Lu , Shenghao Xie , Fei Chao , Yao Sui

Ensemble methods are generally regarded to be better than a single model if the base learners are deemed to be "accurate" and "diverse." Here we investigate a semi-supervised ensemble learning strategy to produce generalizable blind image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zhihua Wang , Dingquan Li , Kede Ma

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) for ultrahighdefinition (UHD) images remains challenging because native-resolution inference is computationally expensive, whereas aggressive resizing or isolated cropping may suppress scale-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shaode Yu , Enqi Chen , Ming Huang , Xuemin Ren , Songnan Zhao , Zhicheng Zhang , Qiurui Sun

Opinion-Unaware Blind Image Quality Assessment (OU-BIQA) models aim to predict image quality without training on reference images and subjective quality scores. Thereinto, image statistical comparison is a classic paradigm, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yixuan Li , Peilin Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Keyan Ding , Leida Li , Shiqi Wang

This work evaluates six state-of-the-art deep neural network (DNN) architectures applied to the problem of enhancing camera-captured document images. The results from each network were evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Lucas N. Kirsten , Ricardo Piccoli , Ricardo Ribani

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images in accordance with human subjective perception. Unfortunately, existing NR-IQA methods are far from meeting the needs of predicting accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Shuwei Shi , Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Mingdeng Cao , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang

Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) is a highly challenging task due to the intrinsic complexity of video content and visual distortions, especially given the high popularity of social media videos, which originate from a wide range of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Wei Sun , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Zhichao Zhang , Zicheng Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

This paper tackles two key challenges: detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects (a major hurdle in computer vision) and improving the quality of noisy images, especially those encountered in industrial environments. [1, 2]. Our focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickaël Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

Image quality assessment is a fundamental problem in the field of image processing, and due to the lack of reference images in most practical scenarios, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), has gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

Learning-based image quality assessment (IQA) has made remarkable progress in the past decade, but nearly all consider the two key components -- model and data -- in isolation. Specifically, model-centric IQA focuses on developing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Peibei Cao , Dingquan Li , Kede Ma

With the rising demand for high-resolution (HR) images, No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) gains more attention, as it can ecaluate image quality in real-time on mobile devices and enhance user experience. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zewen Chen , Sunhan Xu , Yun Zeng , Haochen Guo , Jian Guo , Shuai Liu , Juan Wang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Dehua Liu , Hesong Li

Quality Scalability is one of the important features of interactive imaging to obtain better perceptual quality at a specified target bit rate. In JPEG 2000, it is achieved using quality layers obtained by Rate-Distortion (R-D) optimization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Naveen Cheggoju , Vishal R. Satpute

Full-Reference image quality assessment (FR IQA) is important for image compression, restoration and generative modeling, yet current neural metrics remain slow and vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. We present BiRQA, a compact FR IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Aleksandr Gushchin , Dmitriy S. Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova