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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and widespread use of smartphones have resulted in an exponential growth of image data, both real (camera-captured) and virtual (AI-generated). This surge underscores the critical need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhiqiang Lao , Heather Yu

Reasoning-induced vision-language models (VLMs) advance image quality assessment (IQA) with textual reasoning, yet their scalar scores often lack sensitivity and collapse to a few values, so-called discrete collapse. We introduce ME-IQA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kanglong Fan , Tianhe Wu , Wen Wen , Jianzhao Liu , Le Yang , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Image quality assessment (IQA) serves as the golden standard for all models' performance in nearly all computer vision fields. However, it still suffers from poor out-of-distribution generalization ability and expensive training costs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Kai Liu , Ziqing Zhang , Wenbo Li , Renjing Pei , Fenglong Song , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

For full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) using deep-learning approaches, the perceptual similarity score between a distorted image and a reference image is typically computed as a distance measure between features extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are increasingly deployed as perceptual critics to guide generative models and image restoration. This role demands not only accurate scores but also actionable, localized feedback. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xudong Li , Jiaxi Tan , Ziyin Zhou , Yan Zhong , Zihao Huang , Jingyuan Zheng , Yan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of images based on human subjective perception. Existing methods generally combine multiscale features to achieve high performance, but most rely on straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Shaohui Liu , Hong Huang , Feng Jiang

Hyperspectral image fusion (HIF) is critical to a wide range of applications in remote sensing and many computer vision applications. Most traditional HIF methods assume that the observation model is predefined or known. However, in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Wu Wang , Yue Huang , Xinhao Ding

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) predicts perceptual quality scores consistent with human judgments. Recent RL-based IQA methods built on MLLMs focus on generating visual quality descriptions and scores, ignoring two key reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wulin Xie , Rui Dai , Ruidong Ding , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xinwen Hou , Jie Wen

Existing deep learning-based full-reference IQA (FR-IQA) models usually predict the image quality in a deterministic way by explicitly comparing the features, gauging how severely distorted an image is by how far the corresponding feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Xingran Liao , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Mingliang Zhou , Sam Kwong

We propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) approach that learns from rankings (RankIQA). To address the problem of limited IQA dataset size, we train a Siamese Network to rank images in terms of image quality by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Humans assess image quality through a perception-reasoning cascade, integrating sensory cues with implicit reasoning to form self-consistent judgments. In this work, we investigate how a model can acquire both human-like and self-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuan Li , Yahan Yu , Youyuan Lin , Yong-Hao Yang , Chenhui Chu , Shin'ya Nishida

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

The explosive growth of image data facilitates the fast development of image processing and computer vision methods for emerging visual applications, meanwhile introducing novel distortions to the processed images. This poses a grand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Chao Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

We consider the problem of obtaining image quality representations in a self-supervised manner. We use prediction of distortion type and degree as an auxiliary task to learn features from an unlabeled image dataset containing a mixture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have introduced a paradigm shift for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) from unexplainable image quality scoring to explainable IQA, demonstrating practical applications like quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenjie Liao , Jieyu Yuan , Yifang Xu , Chunle Guo , Zilong Zhang , Jihong Li , Jiachen Fu , Haotian Fan , Tao Li , Junhui Cui , Chongyi Li

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between visual images and their perceptual quality by human observers. IQA modeling plays a special bridging role between vision science and engineering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

With the rapid advancement of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), MLLM-based Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods have shown promising performance in linguistic quality description. However, current methods still fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhiyuan You , Xin Cai , Jinjin Gu , Tianfan Xue , Chao Dong

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