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Over the past decades, numerous Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models have emerged, aiming to predict the perceptual quality of images. However, individual models are often biased toward certain types of image content or distortions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongling Wang , Raymond Zhou , Shahrukh Athar , Wenbo Yang , Zhou Wang

Owing to the proliferation of user-generated videos on the Internet, blind video quality assessment (BVQA) at the edge attracts growing attention. The usage of deep-learning-based methods is restricted to be applied at the edge due to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

With the rapid advancement of Vision Language Models (VLMs), VLM-based Image Quality Assessment (IQA) seeks to describe image quality linguistically to align with human expression and capture the multifaceted nature of IQA tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhiyuan You , Jinjin Gu , Xin Cai , Zheyuan Li , Kaiwen Zhu , Chao Dong , Tianfan Xue

Image quality plays an important role in the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) that have been widely shown to exhibit sensitivity to changes in imaging conditions. Conventional image quality assessment (IQA) seeks to measure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

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

Traditional in the wild image quality assessment (IQA) models are generally trained with the quality labels of mean opinion score (MOS), while missing the rich subjective quality information contained in the quality ratings, for example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiongkuo Min , Yixuan Gao , Yuqin Cao , Guangtao Zhai , Wenjun Zhang , Huifang Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Assessing image quality is crucial in image processing tasks such as compression, super-resolution, and denoising. While subjective assessments involving human evaluators provide the most accurate quality scores, they are impractical for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shima Mohammadi , João Ascenso

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

Humans assess image quality through a perception-reasoning cascade, integrating sensory cues with implicit reasoning to form self-consistent judgments. In this work, we investigate how a model can acquire both human-like and self-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuan Li , Yahan Yu , Youyuan Lin , Yong-Hao Yang , Chenhui Chu , Shin'ya Nishida

Opinion-Unaware Blind Image Quality Assessment (OU-BIQA) models aim to predict image quality without training on reference images and subjective quality scores. Thereinto, image statistical comparison is a classic paradigm, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yixuan Li , Peilin Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Keyan Ding , Leida Li , Shiqi Wang

To effectively evaluate subjective visual quality in weakly-controlled environments, we propose an Adaptive Paired Comparison method based on particle filtering. As our approach requires each sample to be rated only once, the test time…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-09 Katherine Storrs , Sebastiaan Van Leuven , Steve Kojder , Lucas Theis , Ferenc Huszár

Many objective video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms include a key step of temporal pooling of frame-level quality scores. However, less attention has been paid to studying the relative efficiencies of different pooling methods on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Zhengzhong Tu , Chia-Ju Chen , Li-Heng Chen , Neil Birkbeck , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with reference images have achieved great success by imitating the human vision system, in which the image quality is effectively assessed by comparing the query image with its pristine reference image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Xiawu Zheng , Runze Hu , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Yan Zhang , Rongrong Ji

Traditional Image Quality Assessment (IQA) metrics typically fall into one of two extremes: rigid, hand-crafted mathematical models or "black-box" deep learning architectures that completely lack interpretability. To bridge this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ruchika Gupta , Illya Bakurov , Nathan Haut , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) based on human subjective preferences has undergone extensive research in the past decades. However, with the development of communication protocols, the visual data consumption volume of machines has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chunyi Li , Yuan Tian , Xiaoyue Ling , Zicheng Zhang , Haodong Duan , Haoning Wu , Ziheng Jia , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guo Lu , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Blind visual quality assessment (BVQA) on 360{\textdegree} video plays a key role in optimizing immersive multimedia systems. When assessing the quality of 360{\textdegree} video, human tends to perceive its quality degradation from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Li Yang , Mai Xu , Shengxi Li , Yichen Guo , Zulin Wang

Motion blur, out of focus, insufficient spatial resolution, lossy compression and many other factors can all cause an image to have poor quality. However, image quality is a largely ignored issue in traditional pattern recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Fei Yang , Qian Zhang , Miaohui Wang , Guoping Qiu

Generative models for image restoration, enhancement, and generation have significantly improved the quality of the generated images. Surprisingly, these models produce more pleasant images to the human eye than other methods, yet, they may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Marcos V. Conde , Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

This article identifies and addresses a fundamental bottleneck in data-driven 360-degree image quality assessment (IQA): the lack of intelligent, sample-level data selection. Hence, we propose a novel framework that introduces a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Abderrezzaq Sendjasni , Seif-Eddine Benkabou , Mohamed-Chaker Larabi

Recently, the group maximum differentiation competition (gMAD) has been used to improve blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models, with the help of full-reference metrics. When applying this type of approach to troubleshoot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Zhihua Wang , Haotao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Kede Ma