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Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods achieve high-precision evaluation by analysing feature differences between reference and distorted images. However, their performance is constrained by the quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xuting Lan , Mingliang Zhou , Xuekai Wei , Jielu Yan , Yueting Huang , Huayan Pu , Jun Luo , Weijia Jia

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

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

The goal of full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) is to predict the quality of an image as perceived by human observers with using its pristine, reference counterpart. In this study, we explore a novel, combined approach which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Domonkos Varga

Contemporary no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models can effectively quantify perceived image quality, often achieving strong correlations with human perceptual scores on standard IQA benchmarks. Yet, limited efforts have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Automatically learned quality assessment for images has recently become a hot topic due to its usefulness in a wide variety of applications such as evaluating image capture pipelines, storage techniques and sharing media. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Hossein Talebi , Peyman Milanfar

Traditional image quality assessment (IQA) methods rely on mean opinion scores (MOS), which are resource-intensive to collect and fail to provide interpretable, localized feedback on specific image distortions. We overcome these limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fadeel Sher Khan , Long N. Le , Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Seok-Jun Lee , Hamid R. Sheikh

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods typically overlook local manifold structures, leading to compromised discriminative capabilities in perceptual quality evaluation. To address this limitation, we present LML-IQA, an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zihao Huang , Runze Hu , Timin Gao , Yan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li

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

In no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), the challenge of limited dataset sizes hampers the development of robust and generalizable models. Conventional methods address this issue by utilizing large datasets to extract rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Daekyu Kwon , Dongyoung Kim , Sehwan Ki , Younghyun Jo , Hyong-Euk Lee , Seon Joo Kim

Full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) evaluates the visual quality of a distorted image by measuring its perceptual difference with pristine-quality reference, and has been widely used in low-level vision tasks. Pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yue Cao , Zhaolin Wan , Dongwei Ren , Zifei Yan , Wangmeng Zuo

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between visual images and their perceptual quality by human observers. IQA modeling plays a special bridging role between vision science and engineering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhongling Wang , 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

The quality assessment (QA) of restored low light images is an important tool for benchmarking and improving low light restoration (LLR) algorithms. While several LLR algorithms exist, the subjective perception of the restored images has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Vignesh Kannan , Sameer Malik , Rajiv Soundararajan

Diffusion models are promising for sparse-view novel view synthesis (NVS), as they can generate pseudo-ground-truth views to aid 3D reconstruction pipelines like 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, these synthesized images often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Inseong Choi , Siwoo Lee , Seung-Hun Nam , Soohwan Song

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Previous methods typically focus on predicting numerical scores without explanation or providing low-level descriptions lacking precise scores. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Guoqiang Liang , Jianyi Wang , Zhonghua Wu , Shangchen Zhou

Visual (image, video) quality assessments can be modelled by visual features in different domains, e.g., spatial, frequency, and temporal domains. Perceptual mechanisms in the human visual system (HVS) play a crucial role in generation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Junyong You , Zheng Zhang

Objective image quality assessment (IQA) is imperative in the current multimedia-intensive world, in order to assess the visual quality of an image at close to a human level of ability. Many~parameters such as color intensity, structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Md Abu Layek , Sanjida Afroz , TaeChoong Chung , Eui-Nam Huh