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Recent advancements in image quality assessment (IQA), driven by sophisticated deep neural network designs, have significantly improved the ability to approach human perceptions. However, most existing methods are obsessed with fitting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shunyu Yao , Ming Liu , Zhilu Zhang , Zhaolin Wan , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Wangmeng Zuo

Video quality assessment (VQA) is an important problem in computer vision. The videos in computer vision applications are usually captured in the wild. We focus on automatically assessing the quality of in-the-wild videos, which is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang , Ming Jiang

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

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

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 Quality Assessment (IQA) has long been a research hotspot in the field of image processing, especially No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). Due to the powerful feature extraction ability, existing Convolution Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Jie Qin

Recent advancements in the field of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) using deep learning techniques demonstrate high performance across multiple open-source datasets. However, such models are typically very large and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to estimate the perceptual image quality in accordance with subjective evaluations, it is a complex and unsolved problem due to the absence of the pristine reference image. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Saba Dadsetan , Kris M. Kitani

Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to estimate human perception based image visual quality. Although existing deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown significant effectiveness for tackling the IQA problem, it still needs to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) remains a challenging task due to the diversity of distortions and the lack of large annotated datasets. Many studies have attempted to tackle these challenges by developing more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

Several metrics exist to quantify the similarity between images, but they are inefficient when it comes to measure the similarity of highly distorted images. In this work, we propose to empirically investigate perceptual metrics based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Rémi Kazmierczak , Gianni Franchi , Nacim Belkhir , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

Image restoration aims to recover high quality images from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, or low light. While recent studies have shown remarkable progress across individual or unified restoration tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 I-Hsiang Chen , Isma Hadji , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Sy-Yen Kuo , Radu Timofte , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a challenging task that requires training on massive datasets to achieve accurate predictions. However, due to the lack of IQA data, deep learning-based IQA methods typically rely on pre-trained networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xinpeng Li , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Current full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fuse features from reference and distorted images, overlooking that color and luminance distortions occur mainly at low frequencies, whereas edge and texture distortions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Xuekai Wei , Junyu Zhang , Qinlin Hu , Mingliang Zhou\\Yong Feng , Weizhi Xian , Huayan Pu , Sam Kwong

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Qingyi Pan , Ning Guo , Letu Qingge , Jingyi Zhang , Pei Yang

AI-based image enhancement techniques have been widely adopted in various visual applications, significantly improving the perceptual quality of user-generated content (UGC). However, the lack of specialized quality assessment models has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Jun Chen , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) is a proliferating paradigm for LMM training. Analogous to high-level reasoning tasks, RFT is similarly applicable to low-level vision domains, including image quality assessment (IQA). Existing RFT-based IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ziheng Jia , Jiaying Qian , Zicheng Zhang , Zijian Chen , Xiongkuo Min

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are employed in many practical image and video processing pipelines to reduce storage, minimize transmission costs, and improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) of millions of viewers. These models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Krishna Srikar Durbha , Asvin Kumar Venkataramanan , Rajesh Sureddi , Alan C. Bovik