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We introduce the AIM 2024 UHD-IQA Challenge, a competition to advance the No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) task for modern, high-resolution photos. The challenge is based on the recently released UHD-IQA Benchmark Database,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Vlad Hosu , Marcos V. Conde , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Radu Timofte

360-degree/omnidirectional images (OIs) have achieved remarkable attentions due to the increasing applications of virtual reality (VR). Compared to conventional 2D images, OIs can provide more immersive experience to consumers, benefitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Wei Zhou , Jiahua Xu , Qiuping Jiang , Zhibo Chen

AI-based image enhancement techniques have been widely adopted in various visual applications, significantly improving the perceptual quality of user-generated content (UGC). However, the lack of specialized quality assessment models has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Jun Chen , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

Accurate measurement of image quality without reference signals remains a fundamental challenge in low-level visual perception applications. In this paper, we propose a global-local progressive integration model that addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiaoqi Wang , Yun Zhang

New multinuclear MRI techniques, such as sodium MRI, generally suffer from low image quality due to an inherently low signal. Postprocessing methods, such as image denoising, have been developed for image enhancement. However, the…

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) constitutes a fundamental task within the field of computer vision, yet it remains an unresolved challenge, owing to the intricate distortion conditions, diverse image contents, and limited availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Kangmin Xu , Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Chaofeng Chen , Haoning Wu , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate image quality in line with human perception, without reference benchmarks. Currently, deep learning BIQA methods typically depend on using features from high-level tasks for transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Xiawu Zheng , Yutao Liu , ShengChuan Zhang , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

Image composition involves extracting a foreground object from one image and pasting it into another image through Image harmonization algorithms (IHAs), which aim to adjust the appearance of the foreground object to better match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Guangji Ma , Liu Yang , Jiarui Wang , Qingbo Wu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet

Video quality assessment (VQA) is vital for computer vision tasks, but existing approaches face major limitations: full-reference (FR) metrics require clean reference videos, and most no-reference (NR) models depend on training on costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Kylie Cancilla , Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Carmen Carrano

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains a very challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. Deep learning based BIQA methods have been attracting increasing attention in recent years, yet it remains a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang , Alan C. Bovik

Synthetic X-ray angiographies generated by modern generative models hold great potential to reduce the use of contrast agents in vascular interventional procedures. However, low-quality synthetic angiographies can significantly increase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Bo Wang , De-Xing Huang , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Mei-Jiang Gui , Nu-Fang Xiao , Jian-Long Hao , Ming-Yuan Liu , Zeng-Guang Hou

We introduce a Depicted image Quality Assessment method (DepictQA), overcoming the constraints of traditional score-based methods. DepictQA allows for detailed, language-based, human-like evaluation of image quality by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhiyuan You , Zheyuan Li , Jinjin Gu , Zhenfei Yin , Tianfan Xue , Chao Dong

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

Transformer has become the new standard method in natural language processing (NLP), and it also attracts research interests in computer vision area. In this paper we investigate the application of Transformer in Image Quality (TRIQ)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Junyong You , Jari Korhonen

There has emerged a growing interest in exploring efficient quality assessment algorithms for image super-resolution (SR). However, employing deep learning techniques, especially dual-branch algorithms, to automatically evaluate the visual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yixiao Li , Xiaoyuan Yang , Jun Fu , Guanghui Yue , Wei Zhou

The task of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to estimate the quality score of an input image without additional information. NR-IQA models play a crucial role in the media industry, aiding in performance evaluation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yujia Liu , Chenxi Yang , Dingquan Li , Jianhao Ding , Tingting Jiang

Objective assessment of image quality is fundamentally important in many image processing tasks. In this work, we focus on learning blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models which predict the quality of a digital image with no access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Kede Ma , Wentao Liu , Tongliang Liu , Zhou Wang , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we train independent linear decoder models to estimate the perceived quality of images. More specifically, we calculate the responses of individual non-overlapping image patches to each of the decoders and scale these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-26 Mohit Prabhushankar , Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

Due to the diversity of assessment requirements in various application scenarios for the IQA task, existing IQA methods struggle to directly adapt to these varied requirements after training. Thus, when facing new requirements, a typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Zewen Chen , Haina Qin , Juan Wang , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Liang Wang

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) generally assumes that reference images are of perfect quality. However, this assumption is flawed due to the sensor and optical limitations of modern imaging systems. Moreover, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Du Chen , Tianhe Wu , Kede Ma , Lei Zhang