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Blind omnidirectional image quality assessment (BOIQA) presents a great challenge to the visual quality assessment community, due to different storage formats and diverse user viewing behaviors. The main paradigm of BOIQA models includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiebin Yan , Kangcheng Wu , Jingwen Hou , Jiayu Zhang , Pengfei Chen , Yuming Fang

Lowering radiation dose per view and utilizing sparse views per scan are two common CT scan modes, albeit often leading to distorted images characterized by noise and streak artifacts. Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) strives to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

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

Blind Image Quality Assessment, aiming to replicate human perception of visual quality without reference, plays a key role in vision tasks, yet existing models often fail to effectively capture subtle distortion cues, leading to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bohan Fu , Guanyi Qin , Fazhan Zhang , Zihao Huang , Mingxuan Li , Runze Hu

Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is the task of predicting the visual quality of an image as perceived by a human observer. Current state-of-the-art techniques are based on deep representations trained in discriminative manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Simon Raviv , Gal Chechik

Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) plays a pivotal role in evaluating and improving the viewing experience of end-users across a wide range of video-based platforms and services. Contemporary deep learning-based models primarily analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Wen Wen , Mu Li , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Kede Ma

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods often incorporate auxiliary tasks to improve performance. However, existing approaches face limitations due to insufficient integration and a lack of flexible uncertainty estimation, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yiwei Lou , Yuanpeng He , Rongchao Zhang , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Yu Huang

Blind image quality assessment (IQA) in the wild, which assesses the quality of images with complex authentic distortions and no reference images, presents significant challenges. Given the difficulty in collecting large-scale training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Honghao Fu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

While the design of blind image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms has improved significantly, the distribution shift between the training and testing scenarios often leads to a poor performance of these methods at inference time. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Subhadeep Roy , Shankhanil Mitra , Soma Biswas , Rajiv Soundararajan

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

Research on image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited mainly due to our incomplete knowledge about human visual perception. Existing IQA algorithms have been designed or trained with insufficient subjective data with a small degree of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lucie Lévêque , Ji Yang , Xiaohan Yang , Pengfei Guo , Kenneth Dasalla , Leida Li , Yingying Wu , Hantao Liu

Recent years have witnessed the great success of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) in various task-specific scenarios, which present invariable distortion types and evaluation criteria. However, due to the rigid structure and learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Rui Ma , Qingbo Wu , King Ngi Ngan , Hongliang Li , Fanman Meng , Linfeng Xu

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) remains an unresolved challenge in computer vision due to complex distortions, diverse image content, and limited data availability. Existing Blind IQA (BIQA) methods largely rely on extensive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xudong Li , Zihao Huang , Yan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Xiawu Zheng , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

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

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 work we investigate the use of deep learning for distortion-generic blind image quality assessment. We report on different design choices, ranging from the use of features extracted from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

Existing learning-based methods for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) are heavily dependent on large amounts of annotated training data, and usually suffer from a severe performance degradation when encountering the domain/distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jianzhao Liu , Xin Li , Shukun An , Zhibo Chen

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

Humans assess image quality through a perception-reasoning cascade, integrating sensory cues with implicit reasoning to form self-consistent judgments. In this work, we investigate how a model can acquire both human-like and self-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuan Li , Yahan Yu , Youyuan Lin , Yong-Hao Yang , Chenhui Chu , Shin'ya Nishida

Generative models for image restoration, enhancement, and generation have significantly improved the quality of the generated images. Surprisingly, these models produce more pleasant images to the human eye than other methods, yet, they may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Marcos V. Conde , Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte