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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

Objective assessment of image quality is fundamentally important in many image processing tasks. In this work, we focus on learning blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models which predict the quality of a digital image with no access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Kede Ma , Wentao Liu , Tongliang Liu , Zhou Wang , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we present a simple yet effective continual learning method for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) with improved quality prediction accuracy, plasticity-stability trade-off, and task-order/-length robustness. The key step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

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

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims at automatically and accurately forecasting objective scores for visual signals, which has been widely used to monitor product and service quality in low-light applications, covering smartphone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Miaohui Wang , Zhuowei Xu , Mai Xu , Weisi Lin

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is of great value in the workflow of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-based analysis. Blind IQA (BIQA) methods are especially required since high-quality reference MRI images are usually not available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Kehan Qi , Haoran Li , Chuyu Rong , Yu Gong , Cheng Li , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

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

Textual reasoning has recently been widely adopted in Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA). However, it remains unclear how textual information contributes to quality prediction and to what extent text can represent the score-related image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yuan Li , Shin'ya Nishida

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

The annotation of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is labor-intensive and time-consuming, especially for authentic images. Training on synthetic data is expected to be beneficial, but synthetically trained models often suffer from poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Aobo Li , Jinjian Wu , Yongxu Liu , Leida Li

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

The goal in a blind image quality assessment (BIQA) model is to simulate the process of evaluating images by human eyes and accurately assess the quality of the image. Although many approaches effectively identify degradation, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Guangyi Yang , Yang Zhan. , Yuxuan Wang

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

Perceptual quality assessment of the videos acquired in the wilds is of vital importance for quality assurance of video services. The inaccessibility of reference videos with pristine quality and the complexity of authentic distortions pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Bowen Li , Weixia Zhang , Meng Tian , Guangtao Zhai , Xianpei Wang

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) approaches, while promising for automating image quality evaluation, often fall short in real-world scenarios due to their reliance on a generic quality standard applied uniformly across diverse images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Jean Ponce

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

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

Blind panoramic image quality assessment (BPIQA) has recently brought new challenge to the visual quality community, due to the complex interaction between immersive content and human behavior. Although many efforts have been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jiebin Yan , Ziwen Tan , Jiale Rao , Lei Wu , Yifan Zuo , Yuming Fang

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is an essential task that estimates the perceptual quality of images without reference. While many BIQA methods employ deep neural networks (DNNs) and incorporate saliency detectors to enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Completely blind video quality assessment (VQA) refers to a class of quality assessment methods that do not use any reference videos, human opinion scores or training videos from the target database to learn a quality model. The design of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Shankhanil Mitra , Rajiv Soundararajan