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Image quality assessment (IQA) focuses on the perceptual visual quality of images, playing a crucial role in downstream tasks such as image reconstruction, compression, and generation. The rapid advancement of multi-modal large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Weiqi Li , Xuanyu Zhang , Shijie Zhao , Yabin Zhang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Jian Zhang

Due to the existence of quality degradations introduced in various stages of visual signal acquisition, compression, transmission and display, image quality assessment (IQA) plays a vital role in image-based applications. According to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Dongxu Wang

Recently, increasing interest has been drawn in exploiting deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA). Despite of the notable success achieved, there is a broad consensus that training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Hancheng Zhu , Leida Li , Jinjian Wu , Weisheng Dong , Guangming Shi

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu

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

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

Existing deep network-based full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models typically work by performing pairwise comparisons of deep features from the reference and distorted images. In this paper, we approach this problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Zhang , Jielei Chu , Tian Zhang , Lin Ma , Fengmao Lv , Weide Liu , Tianrui Li , Yuming Fang

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

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

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) algorithms aim to reproduce the human's perception of the image quality. The growing popularity of image enhancement, generation, and recovery models instigated the development of many methods to assess their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Segrey Kastryulin , Jamil Zakirov , Nicola Pezzotti , Dmitry V. Dylov

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

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

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

Image Quality Assessment algorithms predict a quality score for a pristine or distorted input image, such that it correlates with human opinion. Traditional methods required a non-distorted "reference" version of the input image to compare…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Subhayan Mukherjee , Giuseppe Valenzise , Irene Cheng

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

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

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of image storage and transmission systems, in which image compression plays an important role. Generally speaking, image compression algorithms are developed to ensure good visual quality at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Wei Wu , Ying Chen , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

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

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