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The rapid advancement of AI-generated image (AIGI) models presents new challenges for evaluating image quality, particularly across three aspects: perceptual quality, prompt correspondence, and authenticity. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chuan Cui , Kejiang Chen , Zhihua Wei , Wen Shen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Scientific images fundamentally differ from natural and AI-generated images in that they encode structured domain knowledge rather than merely depict visual scenes. Assessing their quality therefore requires evaluating not only perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenzhe Li , Liang Chen , Junying Wang , Yijing Guo , Ye Shen , Farong Wen , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Guangtao Zhai

We introduce the AIM 2024 UHD-IQA Challenge, a competition to advance the No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) task for modern, high-resolution photos. The challenge is based on the recently released UHD-IQA Benchmark Database,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Vlad Hosu , Marcos V. Conde , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Radu Timofte

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) plays a critical role in optimizing radiation dose and developing novel medical imaging techniques in computed tomography (CT). Traditional IQA methods relying on hand-crafted features have limitations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Tao Song , Ruizhi Hou , Lisong Dai , Lei Xiang

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 multimedia broadcasting, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is used to indicate the user-perceived quality of experience (QoE) and to support intelligent data transmission while optimizing user experience. This paper proposes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Qiang Qu , Xiaoming Chen , Vera Chung , Zhibo Chen

Image quality assessment (IQA) is traditionally classified into full-reference (FR) IQA and no-reference (NR) IQA according to whether the original image is required. Although NR-IQA is widely used in practical applications, room for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Haoyi Liang , Daniel S. Weller

Image saliency detection is crucial in understanding human gaze patterns from visual stimuli. The escalating demand for research in image saliency detection is driven by the growing necessity to incorporate such techniques into various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Recently, image quality assessment (IQA) has achieved remarkable progress with the success of deep learning. However, the strict pre-condition of full-reference (FR) methods has limited its application in real scenarios. And the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Jingyu Guo , Wei Wang , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jie Zhou

The no-reference image quality assessment is a challenging domain that addresses estimating image quality without the original reference. We introduce an improved mechanism to extract local and non-local information from images via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Mohammed Alsaafin , Musab Alsheikh , Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Usman

With recent advances in deep learning, numerous algorithms have been developed to enhance video quality, reduce visual artifacts, and improve perceptual quality. However, little research has been reported on the quality assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Tianhao Peng , Chen Feng , Duolikun Danier , Fan Zhang , Benoit Vallade , Alex Mackin , David Bull

Depth perception plays an essential role in the viewer experience for immersive virtual reality (VR) visual environments. However, previous research investigations in the depth quality of 3D/stereoscopic images are rather limited, and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to uncertainties surrounding the quality of the captured facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Generic Face Image Quality Assessment (GFIQA) evaluates the perceptual quality of facial images, which is crucial in improving image restoration algorithms and selecting high-quality face images for downstream tasks. We present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wei-Ting Chen , Gurunandan Krishnan , Qiang Gao , Sy-Yen Kuo , Sizhuo Ma , Jian Wang

In this paper, we propose an image quality transformer (IQT) that successfully applies a transformer architecture to a perceptual full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) task. Perceptual representation becomes more important in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Manri Cheon , Sung-Jun Yoon , Byungyeon Kang , Junwoo Lee

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment for distorted images has always been a challenging problem due to image content variance and distortion diversity. Previous IQA models mostly encode explicit single-quality features of synthetic images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Jingtong Yue , Xin Lin , Zijiu Yang , Chao Ren

Image quality plays an important role in the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) that have been widely shown to exhibit sensitivity to changes in imaging conditions. Conventional image quality assessment (IQA) seeks to measure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

The intelligent video surveillance system (IVSS) can automatically analyze the content of the surveillance image (SI) and reduce the burden of the manual labour. However, the SIs may suffer quality degradations in the procedure of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Wei Lu , Wei Sun , Wenhan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Zicheng Zhang , Tao Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Portrait images typically consist of a salient person against diverse backgrounds. With the development of mobile devices and image processing techniques, users can conveniently capture portrait images anytime and anywhere. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Yanwei Jiang , Haoning Wu , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Yingjie Zhou , Zhongpeng Ji , Xiongkuo Min , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai