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Human visual perception naturally evaluates image quality across multiple scales, a hierarchical process that existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) algorithms struggle to replicate effectively. This limitation stems from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Runze Hu , Zihao Huang , Xudong Li , Bohan Fu , Yan Zhang , Sicheng Zhao

Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to predict perceptual image quality scores without access to reference images. State-of-the-art BIQA methods typically require subjects to score a large number of images to train a robust model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Fei Gao , Dacheng Tao , Xinbo Gao , Xuelong Li

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

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

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

A key problem in blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is how to effectively model the properties of human visual system in a data-driven manner. In this paper, we propose a simple and efficient BIQA model based on a novel framework which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Da Pan , Ping Shi , Ming Hou , Zefeng Ying , Sizhe Fu , Yuan Zhang

Visual (image, video) quality assessments can be modelled by visual features in different domains, e.g., spatial, frequency, and temporal domains. Perceptual mechanisms in the human visual system (HVS) play a crucial role in generation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Junyong You , Zheng Zhang

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

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to predict the utility of a face image for face recognition (FR) systems. State-of-the-art FIQA methods mainly rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), leaving the potential of Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrea Atzori , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

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

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

Performance of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models has been significantly boosted by end-to-end optimization of feature engineering and quality regression. Nevertheless, due to the distributional shift between images simulated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

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

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

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 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

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

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

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is susceptible to poor transferability when the distribution shift occurs, e.g., from synthesis degradation to authentic degradation. To mitigate this, some studies have attempted to design unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Xin Li , Yiting Lu , Zhibo Chen