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We study the visual quality judgments of human subjects on digital human avatars (sometimes referred to as "holograms" in the parlance of virtual reality [VR] and augmented reality [AR] systems) that have been subjected to distortions. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yu-Chih Chen , Avinab Saha , Alexandre Chapiro , Christian Häne , Jean-Charles Bazin , Bo Qiu , Stefano Zanetti , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Alan C. Bovik

Super-resolution (SR), a classical inverse problem in computer vision, is inherently ill-posed, inducing a distribution of plausible solutions for every input. However, the desired result is not simply the expectation of this distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Fengjia Zhang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Afsaneh Fazly , Alex Levinshtein

No-reference point cloud quality assessment (NR-PCQA) aims to automatically evaluate the perceptual quality of distorted point clouds without available reference, which have achieved tremendous improvements due to the utilization of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Ziyu Shan , Yujie Zhang , Qi Yang , Haichen Yang , Yiling Xu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiaozhong Xu , Shan Liu

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment for distorted images has always been a challenging problem due to image content variance and distortion diversity. Previous IQA models mostly encode explicit single-quality features of synthetic images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Jingtong Yue , Xin Lin , Zijiu Yang , Chao Ren

Automatic perception of image quality is a challenging problem that impacts billions of Internet and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) method termed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhen Zhang

This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method based on image entropy. The image features are extracted from two domains. In the spatial domain, the mutual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xiaoqiao Chen , Qingyi Zhang , Manhui Lin , Guangyi Yang , Chu He

Neural View Synthesis (NVS), such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting, effectively creates photorealistic scenes from sparse viewpoints, typically evaluated by quality assessment methods like PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qiang Qu , Yiran Shen , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Weidong Cai , Tongliang Liu

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu

A long-held challenge in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) learning from human subjective perception is the lack of objective generalization to unseen natural distortions. To address this, we integrate a novel Depth-Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vaishnav Ramesh , Junliang Liu , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

Neural View Synthesis (NVS) has demonstrated efficacy in generating high-fidelity dense viewpoint videos using a image set with sparse views. However, existing quality assessment methods like PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS are not tailored for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qiang Qu , Hanxue Liang , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Yiran Shen

Contrast change is an important factor that affects the quality of images. During image capturing, unfavorable lighting conditions can cause contrast change and visual quality loss. While various methods have been proposed to assess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour , Saeed Mahmoudpour

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud, as an emerging visual media format, is increasingly favored by consumers as it can provide more realistic visual information than two-dimensional (2D) data. Similar to 2D plane images and videos, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Wu Chen , Qiuping Jiang , Wei Zhou , Feng Shao , Guangtao Zhai , Weisi Lin

No-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) is an important tool in enhancing the user experience in diverse visual applications. A major drawback of state-of-the-art NR-IQA techniques is their reliance on a large number of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Suhas Srinath , Shankhanil Mitra , Shika Rao , Rajiv Soundararajan

Depth perception plays an essential role in the viewer experience for immersive virtual reality (VR) visual environments. However, previous research investigations in the depth quality of 3D/stereoscopic images are rather limited, and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

No-reference video quality assessment (NR-VQA) for gaming videos is challenging due to limited human-rated datasets and unique content characteristics including fast motion, stylized graphics, and compression artifacts. We present MTL-VQA,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Yu-Chih Chen , Michael Wang , Chieh-Dun Wen , Kai-Siang Ma , Avinab Saha , Li-Heng Chen , Alan Bovik

No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment (NR-PCQA) aims to objectively assess the human perceptual quality of point clouds without relying on pristine-quality point clouds for reference. It is becoming increasingly significant with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ziyu Shan , Yujie Zhang , Yipeng Liu , Yiling Xu

Photo-real digital human avatars are of enormous importance in graphics, as they enable immersive communication over the globe, improve gaming and entertainment experiences, and can be particularly beneficial for AR and VR settings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Gerard Pons-Moll , Michael Zollhoefer , Christian Theobalt

Image Quality Assessment algorithms predict a quality score for a pristine or distorted input image, such that it correlates with human opinion. Traditional methods required a non-distorted "reference" version of the input image to compare…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Subhayan Mukherjee , Giuseppe Valenzise , Irene Cheng

We present a novel quality assessment method which can predict the perceptual quality of point clouds from new scenes without available annotations by leveraging the rich prior knowledge in images, called the Distribution-Weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yipeng Liu , Qi Yang , Yujie Zhang , Yiling Xu , Le Yang , Zhu Li

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