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Video quality assessment (VQA) has attracted growing attention in recent years. While the great expense of annotating large-scale VQA datasets has become the main obstacle for current deep-learning methods. To surmount the constraint of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Hongbo Liu , Mingda Wu , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Yansong Tang , Chuanchuan Zheng , Xing Wen , Xiu Li

Video quality assessment (VQA) is now a fast-growing subject, maturing in the full reference (FR) case, yet challenging in the exploding no reference (NR) case. We investigate variants of the popular VMAF video quality assessment algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Pankaj Topiwala , Wei Dai , Jiangfeng Pian , Katalina Biondi , Arvind Krovvidi

Evaluating the perceptual quality of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) images remains a key challenge, particularly in the absence of pixel-aligned ground truth references. Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) methods fail under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Abhijay Ghildyal , Rajesh Sureddi , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Alan Bovik

This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method based on image entropy. The image features are extracted from two domains. In the spatial domain, the mutual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xiaoqiao Chen , Qingyi Zhang , Manhui Lin , Guangyi Yang , Chu He

In the mobile communication field, some of the video applications boosted the interest of robust methods for video quality assessment. Out of all existing methods, We Preferred, No Reference Video Quality Assessment is the one which is most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Amitesh Kumar Singam , Benny Lövström , Wlodek J. Kulesza

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

Super-resolution (SR), a classical inverse problem in computer vision, is inherently ill-posed, inducing a distribution of plausible solutions for every input. However, the desired result is not simply the expectation of this distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Fengjia Zhang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Afsaneh Fazly , Alex Levinshtein

Video quality assessment (VQA) methods focus on particular degradation types, usually artificially induced on a small set of reference videos. Hence, most traditional VQA methods under-perform in-the-wild. Deep learning approaches have had…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Franz Götz-Hahn , Vlad Hosu , Hanhe Lin , Dietmar Saupe

In this paper we investigate into the problem of image quality assessment (IQA) and enhancement via machine learning. This issue has long attracted a wide range of attention in computational intelligence and image processing communities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ke Gu , Dacheng Tao , Junfei Qiao , Weisi Lin

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with reference images have achieved great success by imitating the human vision system, in which the image quality is effectively assessed by comparing the query image with its pristine reference image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Xiawu Zheng , Runze Hu , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Yan Zhang , Rongrong Ji

We propose a new model for no-reference video quality assessment (VQA). Our approach uses a new idea of highly-localized space-time (ST) slices called Space-Time Chips (ST Chips). ST Chips are localized cuts of video data along directions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik

Video Quality Assessment (VQA) aims to evaluate video quality based on perceptual distortions and human preferences. Despite the promising performance of existing methods using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Jiet Vong , Yi-Tsung Lee , Sy-Yen Kuo , Qiang Gao , Sizhuo Ma , Jian Wang

Existing free-energy guided No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods still suffer from finding a balance between learning feature information at the pixel level of the image and capturing high-level feature information and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoyang Wang , Bo Hu , Mingyang Zhang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

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

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

Video quality assessment (VQA) is a challenging problem due to the numerous factors that can affect the perceptual quality of a video, \eg, content attractiveness, distortion type, motion pattern, and level. However, annotating the Mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Kun Yuan , Hongbo Liu , Mading Li , Muyi Sun , Ming Sun , Jiachao Gong , Jinhua Hao , Chao Zhou , Yansong Tang

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

With the rapid advancement of video generation models such as Sora, video quality assessment (VQA) is becoming increasingly crucial for selecting high-quality videos from large-scale datasets used in pre-training. Traditional VQA methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yanyun Pu , Kehan Li , Zeyi Huang , Zhijie Zhong , Kaixiang Yang

Current deep video quality assessment (VQA) methods are usually with high computational costs when evaluating high-resolution videos. This cost hinders them from learning better video-quality-related representations via end-to-end training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Haoning Wu , Chaofeng Chen , Jingwen Hou , Liang Liao , Annan Wang , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Completely blind video quality assessment (VQA) refers to a class of quality assessment methods that do not use any reference videos, human opinion scores or training videos from the target database to learn a quality model. The design of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Shankhanil Mitra , Rajiv Soundararajan