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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

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to predict the utility of a face image for face recognition (FR) systems. State-of-the-art FIQA methods mainly rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), leaving the potential of Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrea Atzori , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Current full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fuse features from reference and distorted images, overlooking that color and luminance distortions occur mainly at low frequencies, whereas edge and texture distortions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Xuekai Wei , Junyu Zhang , Qinlin Hu , Mingliang Zhou\\Yong Feng , Weizhi Xian , Huayan Pu , Sam Kwong

Recently, with the advance of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), person Re-Identification (Re-ID) has witnessed great success in various applications. However, with limited receptive fields of CNNs, it is still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Guowen Zhang , Pingping Zhang , Jinqing Qi , Huchuan Lu

Video quality assessment (VQA) has attracted growing attention in recent years. While the great expense of annotating large-scale VQA datasets has become the main obstacle for current deep-learning methods. To surmount the constraint of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Hongbo Liu , Mingda Wu , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Yansong Tang , Chuanchuan Zheng , Xing Wen , Xiu Li

Digital images contain a lot of redundancies, therefore, compressions are applied to reduce the image size without the loss of reasonable image quality. The same become more prominent in the case of videos that contains image sequences and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Nisar Ahmed , Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif , Hassan Khalid

In this paper, we propose a novel design of Human Visual System (HVS) response in a convolution filter form to decompose meaningful features that are closely tied with image sharpness level. No-reference (NR) Image sharpness assessment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Yueyang Zhang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

There still remains an extreme performance gap between Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when training from scratch on small datasets, which is concluded to the lack of inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiying Lu , Hongtao Xie , Chuanbin Liu , Yongdong Zhang

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

Reconstructing 3D humans from a single image has been extensively investigated. However, existing approaches often fall short on capturing fine geometry and appearance details, hallucinating occluded parts with plausible details, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhenzhen Weng , Jingyuan Liu , Hao Tan , Zhan Xu , Yang Zhou , Serena Yeung-Levy , Jimei Yang

Blind or no-reference (NR) perceptual picture quality prediction is a difficult, unsolved problem of great consequence to the social and streaming media industries that impacts billions of viewers daily. Unfortunately, popular NR prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zhenqiang Ying , Haoran Niu , Praful Gupta , Dhruv Mahajan , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Alan Bovik

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

To support the application scenarios where high-resolution (HR) images are urgently needed, various single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms are developed. However, SISR is an ill-posed inverse problem, which may bring artifacts like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wenhan Zhu , Tao Wang , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

In multimedia broadcasting, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is used to indicate the user-perceived quality of experience (QoE) and to support intelligent data transmission while optimizing user experience. This paper proposes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Qiang Qu , Xiaoming Chen , Vera Chung , Zhibo Chen

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims at estimating image quality in accordance with subjective human perception. However, most methods focus on exploring increasingly complex networks to improve the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ronghua Liao , Chen Hui , Lang Yuan , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang

Point cloud is one of the most widely used digital representation formats for three-dimensional (3D) contents, the visual quality of which may suffer from noise and geometric shift distortions during the production procedure as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Yucheng Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Wu , Ying Chen , Guangtao Zhai

While recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly improved their abilities in image quality assessment (IQA) relying on absolute quality rating, how to transfer reliable relative quality comparison outputs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanwei Zhu , Haoning Wu , Yixuan Li , Zicheng Zhang , Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Yuming Fang , Guangtao Zhai , Weisi Lin , Shiqi Wang

No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment (NR-PCQA) still struggles with generalization, primarily due to the scarcity of annotated point cloud datasets. Since the Human Visual System (HVS) drives perceptual quality assessment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guohua Zhang , Jian Jin , Meiqin Liu , Chao Yao , Weisi Lin

Quality assessment of in-the-wild videos is a challenging problem because of the absence of reference videos and shooting distortions. Knowledge of the human visual system can help establish methods for objective quality assessment of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang , Ming Jiang

With the advent of image super-resolution (SR) algorithms, how to evaluate the quality of generated SR images has become an urgent task. Although full-reference methods perform well in SR image quality assessment (SR-IQA), their reliance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Xinying Lin , Xuyang Liu , Hong Yang , Xiaohai He , Honggang Chen