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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

In this paper we investigate into the problem of image quality assessment (IQA) and enhancement via machine learning. This issue has long attracted a wide range of attention in computational intelligence and image processing communities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ke Gu , Dacheng Tao , Junfei Qiao , Weisi Lin

Generally, humans are more skilled at perceiving differences between high-quality (HQ) and low-quality (LQ) images than directly judging the quality of a single LQ image. This situation also applies to image quality assessment (IQA).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Guanghao Yin , Wei Wang , Zehuan Yuan , Chuchu Han , Wei Ji , Shouqian Sun , Changhu Wang

Blind or no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental, unsolved, and yet challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. It is vital to the streaming and social media industries that impact billions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Kris Kitani

In this paper, we present a novel method of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), which is to predict the perceptual quality score of a given image without using any reference image. The proposed method harnesses three functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Diqi Chen , Yizhou Wang , Tianfu Wu , Wen Gao

Image quality assessment (IQA) is traditionally classified into full-reference (FR) IQA and no-reference (NR) IQA according to whether the original image is required. Although NR-IQA is widely used in practical applications, room for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Haoyi Liang , Daniel S. Weller

An important scenario for image quality assessment (IQA) is to evaluate image restoration (IR) algorithms. The state-of-the-art approaches adopt a full-reference paradigm that compares restored images with their corresponding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Heliang Zheng , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jiebo Luo

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental yet challenging task in low-level computer vision community. The difficulty is particularly pronounced for the limited information, for which the corresponding reference for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Kwan-Yee Lin , Guanxiang Wang

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to estimate the perceptual image quality in accordance with subjective evaluations, it is a complex and unsolved problem due to the absence of the pristine reference image. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Saba Dadsetan , Kris M. Kitani

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

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

In this paper, we propose a no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method via feature level pseudo-reference (PR) hallucination. The proposed quality assessment framework is grounded on the prior models of natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Chenqi Kong , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Zhu Li

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models aim to predict perceptual image quality in alignment with human judgments. No-Reference (NR) IQA remains particularly challenging due to the absence of a reference image. While deep learning has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Rajesh Sureddi , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

We present a deep neural network-based approach to image quality assessment (IQA). The network is trained end-to-end and comprises ten convolutional layers and five pooling layers for feature extraction, and two fully connected layers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sebastian Bosse , Dominique Maniry , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek

Image quality assessment(IQA) is of increasing importance for image-based applications. Its purpose is to establish a model that can replace humans for accurately evaluating image quality. According to whether the reference image is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Lanjiang Wang

Development of perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) metrics has been of significant interest to computer vision community. The aim of these metrics is to model quality of an image as perceived by humans. Recent works in Full-reference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Saikat Dutta , Sourya Dipta Das , Nisarg A. Shah

Evaluating the perceptual quality of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) images remains a key challenge, particularly in the absence of pixel-aligned ground truth references. Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) methods fail under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Abhijay Ghildyal , Rajesh Sureddi , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Alan Bovik

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods achieve high-precision evaluation by analysing feature differences between reference and distorted images. However, their performance is constrained by the quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xuting Lan , Mingliang Zhou , Xuekai Wei , Jielu Yan , Yueting Huang , Huayan Pu , Jun Luo , Weijia Jia

Recently, image quality assessment (IQA) has achieved remarkable progress with the success of deep learning. However, the strict pre-condition of full-reference (FR) methods has limited its application in real scenarios. And the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Jingyu Guo , Wei Wang , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jie Zhou
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