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Image quality assessment is a fundamental problem in the field of image processing, and due to the lack of reference images in most practical scenarios, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), has gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

The current state-of-the-art No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods typically rely on feature extraction from upstream semantic backbone networks, assuming that all extracted features are relevant. However, we make a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xudong Li , Timin Gao , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jingyuan Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

DeepSeek-R1 has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in incentivizing reasoning and generalization capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through reinforcement learning. Nevertheless, the potential of reasoning-induced computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tianhe Wu , Jian Zou , Jie Liang , Lei Zhang , Kede Ma

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

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) models play an important role in various real-world applications. Recently, adversarial attacks against NR-IQA models have attracted increasing attention, as they provide valuable insights for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Zhixuan Li , Tiejun Huang

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

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

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

With the rising demand for high-resolution (HR) images, No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) gains more attention, as it can ecaluate image quality in real-time on mobile devices and enhance user experience. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zewen Chen , Sunhan Xu , Yun Zeng , Haochen Guo , Jian Guo , Shuai Liu , Juan Wang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Dehua Liu , Hesong Li

Human fingerprints are detailed and nearly unique markers of human identity. Such a unique and stable fingerprint is also left on each acquired image. It can reveal how an image was degraded during the image acquisition procedure and thus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Jing Xiao

Face swapping has become a prominent research area in computer vision and image processing due to rapid technological advancements. The metric of measuring the quality in most face swapping methods relies on several distances between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xinghui Zhou , Wenbo Zhou , Tianyi Wei , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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

Assessing the visual quality of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images is an unexplored and an interesting research topic that has become relevant with the current boom in HDR technology. We propose a new convolutional neural network based model…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux , Irene Cheng

Existing free-energy guided No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods still suffer from finding a balance between learning feature information at the pixel level of the image and capturing high-level feature information and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoyang Wang , Bo Hu , Mingyang Zhang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

Deep Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methods have shown impressive high-performance capabilities. Notably, no-reference (NR) VQA methods play a vital role in situations where obtaining reference videos is restricted or not feasible.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Xiaoheng Tan , Jiabin Zhang , Yuhui Quan , Jing Li , Yajing Wu , Zilin Bian

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to estimate perceptual quality without access to a reference image of pristine quality. Learning an NR-IQA model faces a fundamental bottleneck: its need for a large number of costly human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahdi Naseri , Zhou Wang

The optimization objective of regression-based blind image quality assessment (IQA) models is to minimize the mean prediction error across the training dataset, which can lead to biased parameter estimation due to potential training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaoqi Wang , Jian Xiong , Hao Gao , Weisi Lin

We propose a novel certified defense method for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models based on randomized smoothing with noise applied in the feature space rather than the input space. Unlike prior approaches that inject Gaussian noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

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

One major problem of objective Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods is the lack of linearity of their quality estimates with respect to scores expressed by human subjects. For this reason, usually IQA metrics undergo a calibration process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Elio D. Di Claudio , Paolo Giannitrapani , Giovanni Jacovitti