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In this work, we propose a no-reference video quality assessment method, aiming to achieve high-generalization capability in cross-content, -resolution and -frame rate quality prediction. In particular, we evaluate the quality of a video by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Guo Li , Hongfei Fan , Shiqi Wang

The process of rendering high dynamic range (HDR) images to be viewed on conventional displays is called tone mapping. However, tone mapping introduces distortions in the final image which may lead to visual displeasure. To quantify these…

Video and image quality assessment has long been projected as a regression problem, which requires predicting a continuous quality score given an input stimulus. However, recent efforts have shown that accurate quality score regression on…

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Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging task, particularly in the absence of paired training data. In this study, we present LucentVisionNet, a novel zero-shot learning framework that addresses the limitations of traditional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu

Automatic perception of image quality is a challenging problem that impacts billions of Internet and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) method termed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhen Zhang

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

Assessing the visual quality of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images is an unexplored and an interesting research topic that has become relevant with the current boom in HDR technology. We propose a new convolutional neural network based model…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux , Irene Cheng

This paper presents a full-reference image quality estimator based on SIFT descriptor matching over reliability-weighted feature maps. Reliability assignment includes a smoothing operation, a transformation to perceptual color domain, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-16 Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

Visual (image, video) quality assessments can be modelled by visual features in different domains, e.g., spatial, frequency, and temporal domains. Perceptual mechanisms in the human visual system (HVS) play a crucial role in generation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Junyong You , Zheng Zhang

With the inclusion of camera in daily life, an automatic no reference image quality evaluation index is required for automatic classification of images. The present manuscripts proposes a new No Reference Regional Mutual Information based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Vinay Kumar , Vivek Singh Bawa , Rahul Upadhyay

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

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

We introduce a novel cross-reference image quality assessment method that effectively fills the gap in the image assessment landscape, complementing the array of established evaluation schemes -- ranging from full-reference metrics like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zirui Wang , Wenjing Bian , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Tone mapping operators and multi-exposure fusion methods allow us to enjoy the informative contents of high dynamic range (HDR) images with standard dynamic range devices, but also introduce distortions into HDR contents. Therefore methods…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Qin He , Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang , Ming Jiang

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

We consider the problem of obtaining image quality representations in a self-supervised manner. We use prediction of distortion type and degree as an auxiliary task to learn features from an unlabeled image dataset containing a mixture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

The goal of unpaired image-to-image translation is to produce an output image reflecting the target domain's style while keeping unrelated contents of the input source image unchanged. However, due to the lack of attention to the content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Humphrey Shi , Mingli Ding , Nicu Sebe , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool , Elisa Ricci

In this paper, we propose a no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method via feature level pseudo-reference (PR) hallucination. The proposed quality assessment framework is grounded on the prior models of natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Chenqi Kong , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Zhu Li

Diffusion models have recently achieved significant success in various image manipulation tasks, including image super-resolution and perceptual quality enhancement. Pretrained text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sanchar Palit , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee