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Current no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models for enhanced images often struggle to generalize, as they tend to overfit to the distinct patterns of specific enhancement algorithms rather than evaluating genuine perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shiqi Gao , Kang Fu , Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Deep learning models are widely used in a range of application areas, such as computer vision, computer security, etc. However, deep learning models are vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs),carefully crafted samples to deceive those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Aminollah Khormali , DaeHun Nyang , David Mohaisen

The perceptual task of speech quality assessment (SQA) is a challenging task for machines to do. Objective SQA methods that rely on the availability of the corresponding clean reference have been the primary go-to approaches for SQA.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Pranay Manocha , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

Most existing face image Super-Resolution (SR) methods assume that the Low-Resolution (LR) images were artificially downsampled from High-Resolution (HR) images with bicubic interpolation. This operation changes the natural image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Andreas Aakerberg , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund

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

Recent studies have revealed that modern image and video quality assessment (IQA/VQA) metrics are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. An attacker can manipulate a video through preprocessing to artificially increase its quality score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Georgii Gotin , Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Anastasia Antsiferova , Dmitriy Vatolin

No-reference image- and video-quality metrics are widely used in video processing benchmarks. The robustness of learning-based metrics under video attacks has not been widely studied. In addition to having success, attacks that can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Anastasia Antsiferova , Dmitriy Vatolin

The studies on black-box adversarial attacks have become increasingly prevalent due to the intractable acquisition of the structural knowledge of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the performance of emerging attacks is negatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Jie Wang , Zhaoxia Yin , Jin Tang , Jing Jiang , Bin Luo

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) techniques compare a reference and a distorted/test image and predict the perceptual quality of the test image in terms of a scalar value representing an objective score. The evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Ashirbani Saha , Q. M. Jonathan Wu

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

Deep Neural Networks for image classification have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial samples, which consist of sub-perceptual noise added to a benign image that can easily fool trained neural networks, posing a significant risk to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Malhar Jere , Sandro Herbig , Christine Lind , Farinaz Koushanfar

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

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models generally operate by measuring the visual differences between a degraded image and its reference. However, existing FR-IQA models including both the classical ones (eg, PSNR and SSIM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kang Xiao , Xu Wang , Yulin He , Baoliang Chen , Xuelin Shen

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent perceptual IR algorithms based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) have brought in significant improvement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

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

Deep learning based semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods have achieved strong performance in medical image segmentation, which can alleviate doctors' expensive annotation by utilizing a large amount of unlabeled data. Unlike most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Zihang Xu , Zhenghua Xu , Shuo Zhang , Thomas Lukasiewicz

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

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

We propose a test-time defense mechanism against adversarial attacks: imperceptible image perturbations that significantly alter the predictions of a model. Unlike existing methods that rely on feature filtering or smoothing, which can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Dong Lao , Yuxiang Zhang , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Yangchao Wu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a critical task in a wide range of applications but remains challenging due to the subjective nature of human perception and the complexity of real-world image distortions. This study proposes MetaQAP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nisar Ahmed , Gulshan Saleem , Nazik Alturki , Nada Alasbali