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Super-resolution (SR) applied to real-world low-resolution (LR) images often results in complex, irregular degradations that stem from the inherent complexity of natural scene acquisition. In contrast to SR artifacts arising from synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kian Majlessi , Amir Masoud Soltani , Mohammad Ebrahim Mahdavi , Aurelien Gourrier , Peyman Adibi

Image quality is important, and can affect overall performance in image processing and computer vision as well as for numerous other reasons. Image quality assessment (IQA) is consequently a vital task in different applications from aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wei Dai , Daniel Berleant

Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is the task of predicting the visual quality of an image as perceived by a human observer. Current state-of-the-art techniques are based on deep representations trained in discriminative manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Simon Raviv , Gal Chechik

The visual quality of an image is confounded by a number of intertwined factors including its semantic content, distortion characteristics and appearance properties such as brightness, contrast, sharpness, and colourfulness. Distilling high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fei Zhou , Tianhao Gu , Zhicong Huang , Guoping Qiu

The retinal fundus images are utilized extensively in the diagnosis, and their quality can directly affect the diagnosis results. However, due to the insufficient dataset and algorithm application, current fundus image quality assessment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Zheng Gong , Zhuo Deng , Run Gan , Zhiyuan Niu , Lu Chen , Canfeng Huang , Jia Liang , Weihao Gao , Fang Li , Shaochong Zhang , Lan Ma

Teledermatology has become a widely accepted communication method in daily clinical practice, enabling remote care while showing strong agreement with in-person visits. Poor image quality remains an unsolved problem in teledermatology and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Ignacio Hernández Montilla , Alfonso Medela , Paola Pasquali , Andy Aguilar , Taig Mac Carthy , Gerardo Fernández , Antonio Martorell , Enrique Onieva

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) measures and predicts perceived image quality by human observers. Although recent studies have highlighted the critical influence that variations in the scale of an image have on its perceived quality, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Vlad Hosu , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Daisuke Iso , Dietmar Saupe

Visual reinforcement learning has proven effective in solving control tasks with high-dimensional observations. However, extracting reliable and generalizable representations from vision-based observations remains a central challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Xiaobo Hu , Youfang Lin , Yue Liu , Jinwen Wang , Shuo Wang , Hehe Fan , Kai Lv

Embodied AI has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is still mainly deployed in laboratories, with various distortions in the Real-world limiting its application. Traditionally, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods are applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Chunyi Li , Jiaohao Xiao , Jianbo Zhang , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Yuan Tian , Xiangyang Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Zhengxue Cheng , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) plays a crucial role in evaluating and optimizing visual experience. Most existing BIQA approaches fuse shallow and deep features extracted from backbone networks, while overlooking the unequal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Long Tang , Guoquan Zhen , Jie Hao , Jianbo Zhang , Huiyu Duan , Liang Yuan , Guangtao Zhai

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models generally operate by measuring the visual differences between a degraded image and its reference. However, existing FR-IQA models including both the classical ones (eg, PSNR and SSIM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kang Xiao , Xu Wang , Yulin He , Baoliang Chen , Xuelin Shen

Deep learning based image quality assessment (IQA) models usually learn to predict image quality from a single dataset, leading the model to overfit specific scenes. To account for this, mixed datasets training can be an effective way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zhaopeng Feng , Keyang Zhang , Shuyue Jia , Baoliang Chen , Shiqi Wang

This paper uses robust statistics and curvelet transform to learn a general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) model. The new approach, here called M1, competes with the Curvelet Quality Assessment proposed in 2014…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ramon Giostri Campos , Evandro Ottoni Teatini Salles

The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 René Ranftl , Katrin Lasinger , David Hafner , Konrad Schindler , Vladlen Koltun

Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) plays a pivotal role in evaluating and improving the viewing experience of end-users across a wide range of video-based platforms and services. Contemporary deep learning-based models primarily analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Wen Wen , Mu Li , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Kede Ma

In recent years, Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) has become an indispensable part of the face recognition system to guarantee the stability and reliability of recognition performance in an unconstrained scenario. For this purpose, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fu-Zhao Ou , Xingyu Chen , Ruixin Zhang , Yuge Huang , Shaoxin Li , Jilin Li , Yong Li , Liujuan Cao , Yuan-Gen Wang

We introduce a novel Image Quality Assessment (IQA) dataset comprising 6073 UHD-1 (4K) images, annotated at a fixed width of 3840 pixels. Contrary to existing No-Reference (NR) IQA datasets, ours focuses on highly aesthetic photos of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Vlad Hosu , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Oliver Wiedemann , Daisuke Iso , Dietmar Saupe

Recently, diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening utilizing ultra-wide optical coherence tomography angiography (UW-OCTA) has been used in clinical practices to detect signs of early DR. However, developing a deep learning-based DR analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Gitaek Kwon , Eunjin Kim , Sunho Kim , Seongwon Bak , Minsung Kim , Jaeyoung Kim

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