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Automatic Perceptual Image Quality Assessment is a challenging problem that impacts billions of internet, and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a Mixture of Experts approach to train two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Avinab Saha , Sandeep Mishra , Alan C. Bovik

Omnidirectional image quality assessment (OIQA) has been widely investigated in the past few years and achieved much success. However, most of existing studies are dedicated to solve the uniform distortion problem in OIQA, which has a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Jiebin Yan , Jiale Rao , Junjie Chen , Ziwen Tan , Weide Liu , Yuming Fang

Numerous image superresolution (SR) algorithms have been proposed for reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from input images with lower spatial resolutions. However, effectively evaluating the perceptual quality of SR images remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Wei Zhou , Qiuping Jiang , Yuwang Wang , Zhibo Chen , Weiping Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve great success in blind image quality assessment (BIQA) with large pre-trained models in recent years. Their solutions cannot be easily deployed at mobile or edge devices, and a lightweight solution is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , Xingze He , C. -C. Jay Kuo

A key problem in blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is how to effectively model the properties of human visual system in a data-driven manner. In this paper, we propose a simple and efficient BIQA model based on a novel framework which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Da Pan , Ping Shi , Ming Hou , Zefeng Ying , Sizhe Fu , Yuan Zhang

Blind image quality assessment (IQA) in the wild, which assesses the quality of images with complex authentic distortions and no reference images, presents significant challenges. Given the difficulty in collecting large-scale training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Honghao Fu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is an essential task that estimates the perceptual quality of images without reference. While many BIQA methods employ deep neural networks (DNNs) and incorporate saliency detectors to enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

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

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) attempts to improve face recognition (FR) performance by providing additional information about sample quality. Because FIQA methods attempt to estimate the utility of a sample for face recognition, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

Document image quality assessment (DIQA) is an important component for various applications, including optical character recognition (OCR), document restoration, and the evaluation of document image processing systems. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhichao Ma , Fan Huang , Lu Zhao , Fengjun Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

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

Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (PET/CT) plays a critical role in medical imaging, combining functional and anatomical information to aid in accurate diagnosis. However, image quality degradation due to noise, compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Siqiao Li , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Rui Liang , Chenyue Song , Feng Jiang , Haiqi Zhu , Zhixuan Li , Hong Huang , Xiang Li

Research on image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited mainly due to our incomplete knowledge about human visual perception. Existing IQA algorithms have been designed or trained with insufficient subjective data with a small degree of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lucie Lévêque , Ji Yang , Xiaohan Yang , Pengfei Guo , Kenneth Dasalla , Leida Li , Yingying Wu , Hantao Liu

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

In this work we investigate the use of deep learning for distortion-generic blind image quality assessment. We report on different design choices, ranging from the use of features extracted from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on existing low-level vision benchmarks, which primarily focus on generic images. However, their capabilities to perceive and assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sijing Wu , Yunhao Li , Zicheng Zhang , Qi Jia , Xinyue Li , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) evaluates the utility of a face image for automated face recognition (FR) systems. In this work, we propose PreFIQs, an unsupervised and training-free FIQA framework grounded in the Pruning Identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jan Niklas Kolf , Guray Ozgur , Andrea Atzori , Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

As image generation technology advances, AI-based image generation has been applied in various fields and Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has garnered widespread attention. However, the development of AI-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiquan Yuan , Xinyan Cao , Changjin Li , Fanyi Yang , Jinlong Lin , Xixin Cao

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Qingyi Pan , Ning Guo , Letu Qingge , Jingyi Zhang , Pei Yang

The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments. Perceptual datasets gathered for this purpose have provided useful benchmarks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli