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Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains a very challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. Deep learning based BIQA methods have been attracting increasing attention in recent years, yet it remains a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang , Alan C. Bovik

There has been a growing interest in developing image super-resolution (SR) algorithms that convert low-resolution (LR) to higher resolution images, but automatically evaluating the visual quality of super-resolved images remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

The gap between sensing patterns of different face modalities remains a challenging problem in heterogeneous face recognition (HFR). This paper proposes an adversarial discriminative feature learning framework to close the sensing gap via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Lingxiao Song , Man Zhang , Xiang Wu , Ran He

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) algorithms are being integrated into online identity management applications. These applications allow users to upload a face image as part of their document issuance process, where the image is then run…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wassim Kabbani , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

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 aesthetics assessment (IAA) aims to estimate the aesthetics of images. Depending on the content of an image, diverse criteria need to be selected to assess its aesthetics. Existing works utilize pre-trained vision backbones based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhiwei Xiong , Yunfan Zhang , Zhiqi Shen , Peiran Ren , Han Yu

Full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) models assume a high quality "pristine" image as a reference against which to measure perceptual image quality. In many applications, however, the assumption that the reference image is of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-12 Xiangxu Yu , Christos G. Bampis , Praful Gupta , Alan C. Bovik

In this paper, we address the problem of face hallucination by proposing a novel multi-scale generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture optimized for face verification. First, we propose a multi-scale generator architecture for face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Hadi Kazemi , Fariborz Taherkhani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

While deep face recognition (FR) systems have shown amazing performance in identification and verification, they also arouse privacy concerns for their excessive surveillance on users, especially for public face images widely spread on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shengshan Hu , Xiaogeng Liu , Yechao Zhang , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin , Libing Wu

Adversarial attacks on Face Recognition (FR) systems have demonstrated significant effectiveness against standalone FR models. However, their practicality diminishes in complete FR systems that incorporate Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Fengfan Zhou , Qianyu Zhou , Hefei Ling , Xuequan Lu

Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images. The outputs of the IQA algorithms are expected to be consistent with human subjective perception. In image restoration and enhancement tasks, images generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Shuwei Shi , Qingyan Bai , Mingdeng Cao , Weihao Xia , Jiahao Wang , Yifan Chen , Yujiu Yang

Face recognition (FR) has recently made substantial progress and achieved high accuracy on standard benchmarks. However, it has raised security concerns in enormous FR applications because deep CNNs are unusually vulnerable to adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xiao Yang , Dingcheng Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Wenjian Yu , Jun Zhu

Recognition of low-quality face images remains a challenge due to invisible or deformation in partial facial regions. For low-quality images dominated by missing partial facial regions, local region similarity contributes more to face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Wang Yu , Wei Wei

In light of the growing concerns regarding the unauthorized use of facial recognition systems and its implications on individual privacy, the exploration of adversarial perturbations as a potential countermeasure has gained traction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaming Zhang , Qi Yi , Dongyuan Lu , Jitao Sang

No-Reference Video Quality Assessment (NR-VQA) plays an essential role in improving the viewing experience of end-users. Driven by deep learning, recent NR-VQA models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ao-Xiang Zhang , Yu Ran , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

In real-world scenarios, many factors may harm face recognition performance, e.g., large pose, bad illumination,low resolution, blur and noise. To address these challenges, previous efforts usually first restore the low-quality faces to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xiaoguang Tu , Jian Zhao , Qiankun Liu , Wenjie Ai , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is essential in various Computer Vision tasks such as image deblurring and super-resolution. However, most IQA methods require reference images, which are not always available. While there are some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Han Cui , Alfredo De Goyeneche , Efrat Shimron , Boyuan Ma , Michael Lustig

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is a task that predicts the perceptual quality of an image without its reference. Research on BIQA attracts growing attention due to the increasing amount of user-generated images and emerging mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , Xingze He , Yong Yan , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Previous blind or No Reference (NR) video quality assessment (VQA) models largely rely on features drawn from natural scene statistics (NSS), but under the assumption that the image statistics are stationary in the spatial domain. Several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Yize Jin , Anjul Patney , Richard Webb , Alan Bovik

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu