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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

Image Super-Resolution (SR) techniques improve visual quality by enhancing the spatial resolution of images. Quality evaluation metrics play a critical role in comparing and optimizing SR algorithms, but current metrics achieve only limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Tiesong Zhao , Yuting Lin , Yiwen Xu , Weiling Chen , Zhou Wang

Super-Resolution (SR) has advanced rapidly in recent years, with diffusion-based models achieving unprecedented fidelity at the cost of introducing new types of visual artifacts. While existing Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods provide…

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Scientific images fundamentally differ from natural and AI-generated images in that they encode structured domain knowledge rather than merely depict visual scenes. Assessing their quality therefore requires evaluating not only perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenzhe Li , Liang Chen , Junying Wang , Yijing Guo , Ye Shen , Farong Wen , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Guangtao Zhai

Recent years have witnessed remarkable achievements in perceptual image restoration (IR), creating an urgent demand for accurate image quality assessment (IQA), which is essential for both performance comparison and algorithm optimization.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiangfei Sheng , Xiaofeng Pan , Zhichao Yang , Pengfei Chen , Leida Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied to image super-resolution (SR) to enhance the perceptual quality. However, most existing GAN-based SR methods typically perform coarse-grained discrimination directly on images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Guanglu Dong , Xiangyu Liao , Mingyang Li , Guihuan Guo , Chao Ren

Portrait images typically consist of a salient person against diverse backgrounds. With the development of mobile devices and image processing techniques, users can conveniently capture portrait images anytime and anywhere. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Yanwei Jiang , Haoning Wu , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Yingjie Zhou , Zhongpeng Ji , Xiongkuo Min , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Blind or no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental, unsolved, and yet challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. It is vital to the streaming and social media industries that impact billions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Kris Kitani

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is essential in various Computer Vision tasks such as image deblurring and super-resolution. However, most IQA methods require reference images, which are not always available. While there are some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Han Cui , Alfredo De Goyeneche , Efrat Shimron , Boyuan Ma , Michael Lustig

Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean Ponce

Despite significant progress in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), dataset biases and reliance on subjective labels continue to hinder their generalization performance. We propose HiRQA (Hierarchical Ranking and Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Vaishnav Ramesh , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) remains a challenging task due to the diversity of distortions and the lack of large annotated datasets. Many studies have attempted to tackle these challenges by developing more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

Image quality assessment is a fundamental problem in the field of image processing, and due to the lack of reference images in most practical scenarios, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), has gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

Although recent efforts in image quality assessment (IQA) have achieved promising performance, there still exists a considerable gap compared to the human visual system (HVS). One significant disparity lies in humans' seamless transition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yi Ke Yun , Weisi Lin

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) continues to garner great interest in the research community, particularly given the tremendous rise in consumer video capture and streaming. Despite significant research effort in IQA in the past few decades,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Prajna Paramita Dash , Akshaya Mishra , Alexander Wong

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims at estimating image quality in accordance with subjective human perception. However, most methods focus on exploring increasingly complex networks to improve the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ronghua Liao , Chen Hui , Lang Yuan , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang

Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is the task of predicting the visual quality of an image as perceived by a human observer. Current state-of-the-art techniques are based on deep representations trained in discriminative manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Simon Raviv , Gal Chechik

An important scenario for image quality assessment (IQA) is to evaluate image restoration (IR) algorithms. The state-of-the-art approaches adopt a full-reference paradigm that compares restored images with their corresponding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Heliang Zheng , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jiebo Luo

In multimedia broadcasting, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is used to indicate the user-perceived quality of experience (QoE) and to support intelligent data transmission while optimizing user experience. This paper proposes…

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