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With the rapid evolution of the Text-to-Image (T2I) model in recent years, their unsatisfactory generation result has become a challenge. However, uniformly refining AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) of different qualities not only limited…

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Image quality is important, and can affect overall performance in image processing and computer vision as well as for numerous other reasons. Image quality assessment (IQA) is consequently a vital task in different applications from aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wei Dai , Daniel Berleant

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision that has witnessed remarkable progress with deep neural networks. Inspired by the characteristics of the human visual system, existing methods typically use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chaofeng Chen , Jiadi Mo , Jingwen Hou , Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Digital images contain a lot of redundancies, therefore, compression techniques are applied to reduce the image size without loss of reasonable image quality. Same become more prominent in the case of videos which contains image sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Nisar Ahmed , Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif , Hassan Khalid

Computational models for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) are typically trained in well-controlled laboratory environments with limited generalizability to realistically distorted images. Similarly, BIQA models optimized for images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Embodied AI has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is still mainly deployed in laboratories, with various distortions in the Real-world limiting its application. Traditionally, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods are applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Chunyi Li , Jiaohao Xiao , Jianbo Zhang , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Yuan Tian , Xiangyang Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Zhengxue Cheng , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Recent works have successfully applied some types of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to reduce the noticeable distortion resulting from the lossy JPEG/MPEG compression technique. Most of them are built upon the processing made on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Antonio J G Busson , Paulo R C Mendes , Daniel de S Moraes , Álvaro M da Veiga , Álan L V Guedes , Sérgio Colcher

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

Digital images contain a lot of redundancies, therefore, compressions are applied to reduce the image size without the loss of reasonable image quality. The same become more prominent in the case of videos that contains image sequences and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Nisar Ahmed , Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif , Hassan Khalid

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to predict the utility of a face image for face recognition (FR) systems. State-of-the-art FIQA methods mainly rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), leaving the potential of Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrea Atzori , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

While recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly improved their abilities in image quality assessment (IQA) relying on absolute quality rating, how to transfer reliable relative quality comparison outputs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanwei Zhu , Haoning Wu , Yixuan Li , Zicheng Zhang , Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Yuming Fang , Guangtao Zhai , Weisi Lin , Shiqi Wang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a challenging task that requires training on massive datasets to achieve accurate predictions. However, due to the lack of IQA data, deep learning-based IQA methods typically rely on pre-trained networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xinpeng Li , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

No reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a task to estimate the perceptual quality of an image without its corresponding original image. It is even more difficult to perform this task in a zero-shot manner, i.e., without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Takamichi Miyata

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based video quality assessment (VQA) framework to evaluate the quality of the compressed user's generated content (UGC) videos. The proposed VQA framework consists of three modules, the feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Wei Sun , Tao Wang , Xiongkuo Min , Fuwang Yi , Guangtao Zhai

In this paper, we introduce an image quality assessment (IQA) method for pediatric T1- and T2-weighted MR images. IQA is first performed slice-wise using a nonlocal residual neural network (NR-Net) and then volume-wise by agglomerating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Siyuan Liu , Kim-Han Thung , Weili Lin , Pew-Thian Yap , Dinggang Shen

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is important for scientific inquiry, especially in medical imaging and machine learning. Potential data quality issues can be exacerbated when human-based workflows use limited views of the data that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Riqiang Gao , Mirza S. Khan , Yucheng Tang , Kaiwen Xu , Steve Deppen , Yuankai Huo , Kim L. Sandler , Pierre P. Massion , Bennett A. Landman

As super-resolution (SR) techniques advance, we observe a growing distrust of evaluation metrics in recent SR research. An inconsistency often emerges between certain evaluation criteria and human perceptual preference. Although current SR…

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Deep learning for computer vision depends on lossy image compression: it reduces the storage required for training and test data and lowers transfer costs in deployment. Mainstream datasets and imaging pipelines all rely on standard JPEG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Zhijing Li , Christopher De Sa , Adrian Sampson