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Over the past years, images generated by artificial intelligence have become more prevalent and more realistic. Their advent raises ethical questions relating to misinformation, artistic expression, and identity theft, among others. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jonathan Gallagher , William Pugsley

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) for ultrahighdefinition (UHD) images remains challenging because native-resolution inference is computationally expensive, whereas aggressive resizing or isolated cropping may suppress scale-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shaode Yu , Enqi Chen , Ming Huang , Xuemin Ren , Songnan Zhao , Zhicheng Zhang , Qiurui Sun

Recent advancements in image quality assessment (IQA), driven by sophisticated deep neural network designs, have significantly improved the ability to approach human perceptions. However, most existing methods are obsessed with fitting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shunyu Yao , Ming Liu , Zhilu Zhang , Zhaolin Wan , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Wangmeng Zuo

The intelligent video surveillance system (IVSS) can automatically analyze the content of the surveillance image (SI) and reduce the burden of the manual labour. However, the SIs may suffer quality degradations in the procedure of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Wei Lu , Wei Sun , Wenhan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Zicheng Zhang , Tao Wang , Guangtao Zhai

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

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

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to develop methods that estimate the quality scores of images in the absence of a reference image. In this paper, we approach BIQA from a distortion identification perspective, where our primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sepehr Kazemi Ranjbar , Emad Fatemizadeh

A good distortion representation is crucial for the success of deep blind image quality assessment (BIQA). However, most previous methods do not effectively model the relationship between distortions or the distribution of samples with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Simeng Sun , Tao Yu , Jiahua Xu , Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

The quality of face images significantly influences the performance of underlying face recognition algorithms. Face image quality assessment (FIQA) estimates the utility of the captured image in achieving reliable and accurate recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Fadi Boutros , Meiling Fang , Marcel Klemt , Biying Fu , Naser Damer

Image compression has been applied in the fields of image storage and video broadcasting. However, it's formidably tough to distinguish the subtle quality differences between those distorted images generated by different algorithms. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kaiqun Wu , Xiaoling Jiang , Rui Yu , Yonggang Luo , Tian Jiang , Xi Wu , Peng Wei

The image Super-Resolution (SR) technique has greatly improved the visual quality of images by enhancing their resolutions. It also calls for an efficient SR Image Quality Assessment (SR-IQA) to evaluate those algorithms or their generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Keke Zhang , Tiesong Zhao , Weiling Chen , Yuzhen Niu , Jinsong Hu

In this paper, we propose an image quality transformer (IQT) that successfully applies a transformer architecture to a perceptual full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) task. Perceptual representation becomes more important in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Manri Cheon , Sung-Jun Yoon , Byungyeon Kang , Junwoo Lee

Portable backscatter imaging systems (PBI) integrate an X-ray source and detector in a single unit, utilizing Compton scattering photons to rapidly acquire superficial or shallow structural information of an inspected object through…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Linxuan Li , Wenjia Wei , Yunfei Lu , Wenwen Zhang , Yanlong Zhang , Wei Zhao

Subjective image quality measures based on deep neural networks are very related to models of visual neuroscience. This connection benefits engineering but, more interestingly, the freedom to optimize deep networks in different ways, make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Pablo Hernández-Cámara , Jorge Vila-Tomás , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo

Wide-angle portraits often enjoy expanded views. However, they contain perspective distortions, especially noticeable when capturing group portrait photos, where the background is skewed and faces are stretched. This paper introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jing Tan , Shan Zhao , Pengfei Xiong , Jiangyu Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods are mostly designed in a disposable way and cannot evolve with unseen distortions adaptively, which greatly limits the deployment and application of BIQA models in real-world scenarios.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jianzhao Liu , Wei Zhou , Jiahua Xu , Xin Li , Shukun An , Zhibo Chen

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) plays a crucial role in evaluating and optimizing visual experience. Most existing BIQA approaches fuse shallow and deep features extracted from backbone networks, while overlooking the unequal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Long Tang , Guoquan Zhen , Jie Hao , Jianbo Zhang , Huiyu Duan , Liang Yuan , Guangtao Zhai

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to assess the recognition utility of face samples and is essential for reliable face recognition (FR) systems. Existing approaches require computationally expensive procedures such as multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guray Ozgur , Tahar Chettaoui , Eduarda Caldeira , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Andrea Atzori , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Image quality assessment (IQA) represents a pivotal challenge in image-focused technologies, significantly influencing the advancement trajectory of image processing and computer vision. Recently, IQA has witnessed a notable surge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengqian Ma , Zhengyi Shi , Zhiqiang Lu , Shenghao Xie , Fei Chao , Yao Sui

Learning-based image quality assessment (IQA) has made remarkable progress in the past decade, but nearly all consider the two key components -- model and data -- in isolation. Specifically, model-centric IQA focuses on developing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Peibei Cao , Dingquan Li , Kede Ma