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Face image quality is an important factor in facial recognition systems as its verification and recognition accuracy is highly dependent on the quality of image presented. Rejecting low quality images can significantly increase the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Vishal Agarwal

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) generally assumes that reference images are of perfect quality. However, this assumption is flawed due to the sensor and optical limitations of modern imaging systems. Moreover, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Du Chen , Tianhe Wu , Kede Ma , Lei Zhang

Face Recognition (FR) is used in a variety of application domains, from entertainment and banking to security and surveillance. Such applications rely on the FR model to be robust and perform well in a variety of settings. To achieve this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Žiga Babnik , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) is essential for reliable face recognition systems. Current approaches primarily exploit only final-layer representations, while training-free methods require multiple forward passes or backpropagation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Guray Ozgur , Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Image quality assessment(IQA) is of increasing importance for image-based applications. Its purpose is to establish a model that can replace humans for accurately evaluating image quality. According to whether the reference image is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Lanjiang Wang

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

In recent years, Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) has become an indispensable part of the face recognition system to guarantee the stability and reliability of recognition performance in an unconstrained scenario. For this purpose, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fu-Zhao Ou , Xingyu Chen , Ruixin Zhang , Yuge Huang , Shaoxin Li , Jilin Li , Yong Li , Liujuan Cao , Yuan-Gen Wang

Face restoration (FR) is a specialized field within image restoration that aims to recover low-quality (LQ) face images into high-quality (HQ) face images. Recent advances in deep learning technology have led to significant progress in FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Wenjie Li , Mei Wang , Kai Zhang , Juncheng Li , Xiaoming Li , Yuhang Zhang , Guangwei Gao , Weihong Deng , Chia-Wen Lin

The rapid advancement of deepfake technologies has sparked widespread public concern, particularly as face forgery poses a serious threat to public information security. However, the unknown and diverse forgery techniques, varied facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhengchao Huang , Bin Xia , Zicheng Lin , Zhun Mou , Wenming Yang , Jiaya Jia

Recent years have witnessed the dramatically increased interest in face generation with generative adversarial networks (GANs). A number of successful GAN algorithms have been developed to produce vivid face images towards different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yu Tian , Zhangkai Ni , Baoliang Chen , Shiqi Wang , Hanli Wang , Sam Kwong

We propose a novel certified defense method for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models based on randomized smoothing with noise applied in the feature space rather than the input space. Unlike prior approaches that inject Gaussian noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

Face Restoration (FR) aims to restore High-Quality (HQ) faces from Low-Quality (LQ) input images, which is a domain-specific image restoration problem in the low-level computer vision area. The early face restoration methods mainly use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Jiankang Deng , Tong Lu , Wei Liu , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Motion blur, out of focus, insufficient spatial resolution, lossy compression and many other factors can all cause an image to have poor quality. However, image quality is a largely ignored issue in traditional pattern recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Fei Yang , Qian Zhang , Miaohui Wang , Guoping Qiu

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate image quality in line with human perception, without reference benchmarks. Currently, deep learning BIQA methods typically depend on using features from high-level tasks for transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Xiawu Zheng , Yutao Liu , ShengChuan Zhang , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

Recent successful adversarial attacks on face recognition show that, despite the remarkable progress of face recognition models, they are still far behind the human intelligence for perception and recognition. It reveals the vulnerability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Keshav Kasichainula , Hadi Mansourifar , Weidong Shi

Existing face super-resolution (SR) methods mainly assume the input image to be noise-free. Their performance degrades drastically when applied to real-world scenarios where the input image is always contaminated by noise. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jingwei Xin , Nannan Wang , Xinrui Jiang , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao , Zhifeng Li

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

Deep Learning methods have become state-of-the-art for solving tasks such as Face Recognition (FR). Unfortunately, despite their success, it has been pointed out that these learning models are exposed to adversarial inputs - images to which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabio Carrara , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods achieve high-precision evaluation by analysing feature differences between reference and distorted images. However, their performance is constrained by the quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xuting Lan , Mingliang Zhou , Xuekai Wei , Jielu Yan , Yueting Huang , Huayan Pu , Jun Luo , Weijia Jia

Face video quality assessment (FVQA) deserves to be explored in addition to general video quality assessment (VQA), as face videos are the primary content on social media platforms and human visual system (HVS) is particularly sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sijing Wu , Yunhao Li , Ziwen Xu , Yixuan Gao , Huiyu Duan , Wei Sun , Guangtao Zhai