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Many super-resolution (SR) algorithms have been proposed to increase image resolution. However, full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) metrics for comparing and evaluating different SR algorithms are limited. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yixiao Li , Xiaoyuan Yang , Guanghui Yue , Jun Fu , Qiuping Jiang , Xu Jia , Paul L. Rosin , Hantao Liu , Wei Zhou

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

This paper addresses the problem of blind stereoscopic image quality assessment (NR-SIQA) using a new multi-task deep learning based-method. In the field of stereoscopic vision, the information is fairly distributed between the left and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Salima Bourbia , Ayoub Karine , Aladine Chetouani , Mohammed El Hassouni

Retinal image quality assessment (RIQA) is essential for controlling the quality of retinal imaging and guaranteeing the reliability of diagnoses by ophthalmologists or automated analysis systems. Existing RIQA methods focus on the RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Huazhu Fu , Boyang Wang , Jianbing Shen , Shanshan Cui , Yanwu Xu , Jiang Liu , Ling Shao

Computational models for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) are typically trained in well-controlled laboratory environments with limited generalizability to realistically distorted images. Similarly, BIQA models optimized for images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

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

Livestreaming has become increasingly prevalent in modern visual communication, where automatic camera quality tuning is essential for delivering superior user Quality of Experience (QoE). Such tuning requires accurate blind image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Xiangfei Sheng , Zhichao Duan , Xiaofeng Pan , Yipo Huang , Zhichao Yang , Pengfei Chen , Leida Li

Image quality assessment (IQA) is inherently complex, as it reflects both the quantification and interpretation of perceptual quality rooted in the human visual system. Conventional approaches typically rely on fixed models to output scalar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanwei Zhu , Yu Tian , Keyan Ding , Baoliang Chen , Bolin Chen , Shiqi Wang , Weisi Lin

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

We propose a new method for the visual quality assessment of 360-degree (omnidirectional) videos. The proposed method is based on computing multiple spatio-temporal objective quality features on viewports extracted from 360-degree videos. A…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Roberto G. de A. Azevedo , Neil Birkbeck , Ivan Janatra , Balu Adsumilli , Pascal Frossard

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 (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

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

Optical microscopy is one of the most widely used techniques in research studies for life sciences and biomedicine. These applications require reliable experimental pipelines to extract valuable knowledge from the measured samples and must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Elena Corbetta , Thomas Bocklitz

Completely blind video quality assessment (VQA) refers to a class of quality assessment methods that do not use any reference videos, human opinion scores or training videos from the target database to learn a quality model. The design of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Shankhanil Mitra , Rajiv Soundararajan

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models benefit significantly from semantic information, which allows them to treat different types of objects distinctly. Currently, leveraging semantic information to enhance IQA is a crucial research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wensheng Pan , Timin Gao , Yan Zhang , Runze Hu , Xiawu Zheng , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yutao Liu , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Omnidirectional images (ODIs), also known as 360-degree images, enable viewers to explore all directions of a given 360-degree scene from a fixed point. Designing an immersive imaging system with ODI is challenging as such systems require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Cagri Ozcinar , Aakanksha Rana

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to simulate the process of perceiving image quality aligned with subjective human perception. However, existing NR-IQA methods either focus on global representations that leads to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang , Yachun Mi , Wei Zhang , Shaohui Liu

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

Deep learning-based methods have significantly influenced the blind image quality assessment (BIQA) field, however, these methods often require training using large amounts of human rating data. In contrast, traditional knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhangkai Ni , Yue Liu , Keyan Ding , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Shiqi Wang