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High dynamic range (HDR) video reconstruction from sequences captured with alternating exposures is a very challenging problem. Existing methods often align low dynamic range (LDR) input sequence in the image space using optical flow, and…

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We consider the problem of capturing distortions arising from changes in frame rate as part of Video Quality Assessment (VQA). Variable frame rate (VFR) videos have become much more common, and streamed videos commonly range from 30 frames…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Video Quality Assessment (VQA), which intends to predict the perceptual quality of videos, has attracted increasing attention. Due to factors like motion blur or specific distortions, the quality of different regions in a video varies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Jian Wang

The complexity of modern codecs along with the increased need of delivering high-quality videos at low bitrates has reinforced the idea of a per-clip tailoring of parameters for optimised rate-distortion performance. While the objective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Vibhoothi , François Pitié , Angeliki Katsenou , Yeping Su , Balu Adsumilli , Anil Kokaram

Learning-based video quality assessment (VQA) has advanced rapidly, yet progress is increasingly constrained by a disconnect between model design and dataset curation. Model-centric approaches often iterate on fixed benchmarks, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jian Zou , Xiaoyu Xu , Zhihua Wang , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Kede Ma

Video quality is a primary concern for video service providers. In recent years, the techniques of video quality assessment (VQA) based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been developed rapidly. Although existing works…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Ao-Xiang Zhang , Yuan-Gen Wang , Weixuan Tang , Leida Li , Sam Kwong

High dynamic range (HDR) capture and display have seen significant growth in popularity driven by the advancements in technology and increasing consumer demand for superior image quality. As a result, HDR image compression is crucial to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Peibei Cao , Haoyu Chen , Jingzhe Ma , Yu-Chieh Yuan , Zhiyong Xie , Xin Xie , Haiqing Bai , Kede Ma

Conventional image quality metrics (IQMs), such as PSNR and SSIM, are designed for perceptually uniform gamma-encoded pixel values and cannot be directly applied to perceptually non-uniform linear high-dynamic-range (HDR) colors. Similarly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Andrei Chubarau , Hyunjin Yoo , Tara Akhavan , James Clark

Image quality assessment (IQA) has long been a fundamental challenge in image understanding. In recent years, deep learning-based IQA methods have shown promising performance. However, the lack of large amounts of labeled data in the IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Xiaojiang Peng , Jie Qin

Recent works in video quality assessment (VQA) typically employ monolithic models that typically predict a single quality score for each test video. These approaches cannot provide diagnostic, interpretable feedback, offering little insight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Chen Feng , Tianhao Peng , Fan Zhang , David Bull

A major challenge for high dynamic range (HDR) image reconstruction from multi-exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images, especially with dynamic scenes, is the extraction and merging of relevant contextual features in order to suppress any…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Lingkai Zhu , Fei Zhou , Bozhi Liu , Orcun Göksel

Video Quality Assessment (VQA), which aims to predict the perceptual quality of a video, has attracted raising attention with the rapid development of streaming media technology, such as Facebook, TikTok, Kwai, and so on. Compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Kun Yuan , Zishang Kong , Chuanchuan Zheng , Ming Sun , Xing Wen

In this work, we address the task of SDR videos to HDR videos(SDRTV-to-HDRTV). Previous approaches use global feature modulation for SDRTV-to-HDRTV. Feature modulation scales and shifts the features in the original feature space, which has…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Gang He , Kepeng Xu , Li Xu , Chang Wu , Ming Sun , Xing Wen , Yu-Wing Tai

The high dynamic range (HDR) video ecosystem is approaching maturity, but the problem of upconverting legacy standard dynamic range (SDR) videos persists without a convincing solution. We propose a framework for HDR video synthesis from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 SaiKiran Tedla , Francesco Banterle , Trevor Canham , Karanpreet Raja , David B. Lindell , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , Jiacheng Li , Feiran Li , Daisuke Iso

While existing video and image quality datasets have extensively studied natural videos and traditional distortions, the perception of synthetic content and modern rendering artifacts remains underexplored. We present a novel video quality…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Akshay Jindal , Nabil Sadaka , Manu Mathew Thomas , Anton Sochenov , Anton Kaplanyan

As multimedia services such as video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring high perceptual visual quality becomes a priority to maintain user satisfaction and competitiveness.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wei Zhou , Hadi Amirpour , Christian Timmerer , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet , Alan C. Bovik

High dynamic range (HDR) video reconstruction aims to generate HDR videos from low dynamic range (LDR) frames captured with alternating exposures. Most existing works solely rely on the regression-based paradigm, leading to adverse effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yuanshen Guan , Ruikang Xu , Mingde Yao , Ruisheng Gao , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong

Video compression is a standard procedure applied to all videos to minimize storage and transmission demands while preserving visual quality as much as possible. Therefore, evaluating the visual quality of compressed videos is crucial for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Wei Sun , Linhan Cao , Kang Fu , Dandan Zhu , Jun Jia , Menghan Hu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

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

Despite the growing popularity of video super-resolution (VSR), there is still no good way to assess the quality of the restored details in upscaled frames. Some SR methods may produce the wrong digit or an entirely different face. Whether…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Anastasia Kirillova , Eugene Lyapustin , Anastasia Antsiferova , Dmitry Vatolin