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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

With the rapid advancement of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), MLLM-based Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods have shown promising generalization. However, directly extending these MLLM-based IQA methods to PCQA remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guohua Zhang , Jian Jin , Meiqin Liu , Chao Yao , Weisi Lin , Yao Zhao

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

Blind or no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental, unsolved, and yet challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. It is vital to the streaming and social media industries that impact billions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Kris Kitani

The research in image quality assessment (IQA) has a long history, and significant progress has been made by leveraging recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite high correlation numbers on existing IQA datasets, DNN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Zhihua Wang , Kede Ma

Automatic Perceptual Image Quality Assessment is a challenging problem that impacts billions of internet, and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a Mixture of Experts approach to train two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Avinab Saha , Sandeep Mishra , Alan C. Bovik

Embodied AI has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is still mainly deployed in laboratories, with various distortions in the Real-world limiting its application. Traditionally, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods are applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Chunyi Li , Jiaohao Xiao , Jianbo Zhang , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Yuan Tian , Xiangyang Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Zhengxue Cheng , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Among the various image quality assessment (IQA) tasks, blind IQA (BIQA) is particularly challenging due to the absence of knowledge about the reference image and distortion type. Features based on natural scene statistics (NSS) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wufeng Xue , Xuanqin Mou , Lei Zhang

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve great success in blind image quality assessment (BIQA) with large pre-trained models in recent years. Their solutions cannot be easily deployed at mobile or edge devices, and a lightweight solution is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , Xingze He , C. -C. Jay Kuo

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

Nowadays, most existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models 1) are developed for synthetically-distorted images and often generalize poorly to authentic ones; 2) heavily rely on human ratings, which are prohibitively…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhihua Wang , Zhi-Ri Tang , Jianguo Zhang , Yuming Fang

Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between visual images and their perceptual quality by human observers. IQA modeling plays a special bridging role between vision science and engineering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

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

We propose a deep bilinear model for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) that handles both synthetic and authentic distortions. Our model consists of two convolutional neural networks (CNN), each of which specializes in one distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Jia Yan , Dexiang Deng , Zhou Wang

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

Deep learning-based methods have significantly influenced the blind image quality assessment (BIQA) field, however, these methods often require training using large amounts of human rating data. In contrast, traditional knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhangkai Ni , Yue Liu , Keyan Ding , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Shiqi Wang

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aim to simulate human subjective perception of image visual quality and aesthetic appeal. Despite distinct learning objectives, they have underlying interconnectedness due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hantao Zhou , Longxiang Tang , Rui Yang , Guanyi Qin , Yan Zhang , Yutao Li , Xiu Li , Runze Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Traditional image quality assessment (IQA) methods rely on mean opinion scores (MOS), which are resource-intensive to collect and fail to provide interpretable, localized feedback on specific image distortions. We overcome these limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fadeel Sher Khan , Long N. Le , Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Seok-Jun Lee , Hamid R. Sheikh