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We introduce GQA, a new dataset for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering, seeking to address key shortcomings of previous VQA datasets. We have developed a strong and robust question engine that leverages scene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Drew A. Hudson , Christopher D. Manning

Psychophysical experiments remain the most reliable approach for perceptual image quality assessment (IQA), yet their cost and limited scalability encourage automated approaches. We investigate whether Vision Language Models (VLMs) can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Imran Mehmood , Imad Ali Shah , Ming Ronnier Luo , Brian Deegan

Measuring the perceptual quality of images automatically is an essential task in the area of computer vision, as degradations on image quality can exist in many processes from image acquisition, transmission to enhancing. Many Image Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jing Wang , Haotian Fan , Xiaoxia Hou , Yitian Xu , Tao Li , Xuechao Lu , Lean Fu

Perceptual quality assessment of the videos acquired in the wilds is of vital importance for quality assurance of video services. The inaccessibility of reference videos with pristine quality and the complexity of authentic distortions pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Bowen Li , Weixia Zhang , Meng Tian , Guangtao Zhai , Xianpei Wang

Image quality assessment (IQA) forms a natural and often straightforward undertaking for humans, yet effective automation of the task remains highly challenging. Recent metrics from the deep learning community commonly compare image pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 William Thong , Jose Costa Pereira , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

No-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) is an important tool in enhancing the user experience in diverse visual applications. A major drawback of state-of-the-art NR-IQA techniques is their reliance on a large number of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Suhas Srinath , Shankhanil Mitra , Shika Rao , Rajiv Soundararajan

The enormous space and diversity of natural images is usually represented by a few small-scale human-rated image quality assessment (IQA) datasets. This casts great challenges to deep neural network (DNN) based blind IQA (BIQA), which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Shahrukh Athar , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

Improving vision-language models (VLMs) in the post-training stage typically relies on supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, methods that necessitate costly, human-annotated data. While self-supervised techniques have proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wen Wen , Tianwu Zhi , Kanglong Fan , Yang Li , Xinge Peng , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly adopted as central reasoning modules for embodied agents. Existing benchmarks evaluate their capabilities under ideal, well-lit conditions, yet robust 24/7 operation demands performance under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yohan Park , Hyunwoo Ha , Wonjun Jo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Evaluating text-to-vision content hinges on two crucial aspects: visual quality and alignment. While significant progress has been made in developing objective models to assess these dimensions, the performance of such models heavily relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zicheng Zhang , Tengchuan Kou , Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Wei Sun , Wei Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Zongyu Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Xiongkuo Min , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai

In recent years, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) for AI-generated images (AIGI) has advanced rapidly; however, existing methods primarily target portraits and artistic images, lacking a systematic evaluation of interior scenes. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yuan Gao , Jin Song

Blind Image Quality Assessment, aiming to replicate human perception of visual quality without reference, plays a key role in vision tasks, yet existing models often fail to effectively capture subtle distortion cues, leading to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bohan Fu , Guanyi Qin , Fazhan Zhang , Zihao Huang , Mingxuan Li , Runze Hu

Recent advances in vision-language models have shown notable generalization in broad tasks through visual instruction tuning. However, bridging the gap between the pre-trained vision encoder and the large language models (LLMs) becomes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guohao Sun , Can Qin , Jiamian Wang , Zeyuan Chen , Ran Xu , Zhiqiang Tao

Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to estimate human perception based image visual quality. Although existing deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown significant effectiveness for tackling the IQA problem, it still needs to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) has long been a research hotspot in the field of image processing, especially No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). Due to the powerful feature extraction ability, existing Convolution Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Jie Qin

With the increasing demand for image-based applications, the efficient and reliable evaluation of image quality has increased in importance. Measuring the image quality is of fundamental importance for numerous image processing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Pedram Mohammadi , Abbas Ebrahimi-Moghadam , Shahram Shirani

Omnidirectional image quality assessment (OIQA) has been one of the hot topics in IQA with the continuous development of VR techniques, and achieved much success in the past few years. However, most studies devote themselves to the uniform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Jiebin Yan , Jiale Rao , Xuelin Liu , Yuming Fang , Yifan Zuo , Weide Liu

The rapid expansion of mobile internet has resulted in a substantial increase in user-generated content (UGC) images, thereby making the thorough assessment of UGC images both urgent and essential. Recently, multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingxing Li , Rui Wang , Lei Sun , Yancheng Bai , Xiangxiang Chu

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have experienced significant advancement in visual understanding and reasoning, their potential to serve as powerful, flexible, interpretable, and text-driven models for Image Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Tianhe Wu , Kede Ma , Jie Liang , Yujiu Yang , Lei Zhang

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