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Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms aim to reproduce the human's perception of the image quality. The growing popularity of image enhancement, generation, and recovery models instigated the development of many methods to assess their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Segrey Kastryulin , Jamil Zakirov , Nicola Pezzotti , Dmitry V. Dylov

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

Several metrics exist to quantify the similarity between images, but they are inefficient when it comes to measure the similarity of highly distorted images. In this work, we propose to empirically investigate perceptual metrics based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Rémi Kazmierczak , Gianni Franchi , Nacim Belkhir , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

Medical image enhancement is crucial for improving the quality and interpretability of diagnostic images, ultimately supporting early detection, accurate diagnosis, and effective treatment planning. Despite advancements in imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chun Wai Chin , Haniza Yazid , Hoi Leong Lee

The no-reference image quality assessment is a challenging domain that addresses estimating image quality without the original reference. We introduce an improved mechanism to extract local and non-local information from images via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Mohammed Alsaafin , Musab Alsheikh , Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Usman

Human fingerprints are detailed and nearly unique markers of human identity. Such a unique and stable fingerprint is also left on each acquired image. It can reveal how an image was degraded during the image acquisition procedure and thus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Jing Xiao

Generally, humans are more skilled at perceiving differences between high-quality (HQ) and low-quality (LQ) images than directly judging the quality of a single LQ image. This situation also applies to image quality assessment (IQA).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Guanghao Yin , Wei Wang , Zehuan Yuan , Chuchu Han , Wei Ji , Shouqian Sun , Changhu Wang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is important in clinic to produce high resolution images for diagnosis, but its acquisition time is long for high resolution images. Deep learning based MRI super resolution methods can reduce scan time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Ziyan Lin , Zihao Chen

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

We study the effect of incorporating self-supervised denoising as a pre-processing step for training deep learning (DL) based reconstruction methods on data corrupted by Gaussian noise. K-space data employed for training are typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Asad Aali , Marius Arvinte , Sidharth Kumar , Yamin I. Arefeen , Jonathan I. Tamir

A problem of image denoising when images are corrupted by a non-stationary noise is considered in this paper. Since in practice no a priori information on noise is available, noise statistics should be pre-estimated for image denoising. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Sheyda Ghanbaralizadeh Bahnemiri , Mykola Ponomarenko , Karen Egiazarian

We introduce a Depicted image Quality Assessment method (DepictQA), overcoming the constraints of traditional score-based methods. DepictQA allows for detailed, language-based, human-like evaluation of image quality by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhiyuan You , Zheyuan Li , Jinjin Gu , Zhenfei Yin , Tianfan Xue , Chao Dong

In clinical practice MR images are often first seen by radiologists long after the scan. If image quality is inadequate either patients have to return for an additional scan, or a suboptimal interpretation is rendered. An automatic image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Ke Lei , John M. Pauly , Shreyas S. Vasanawala

Despite substantial progress in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), previous training models often suffer from over-fitting due to the limited scale of used datasets, resulting in model performance bottlenecks. To tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jiamu Sheng , Jiayuan Fan , Peng Ye , Jianjian Cao

Objective image quality assessment deals with the prediction of digital images' perceptual quality. No-reference image quality assessment predicts the quality of a given input image without any knowledge or information about its pristine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Domonkos Varga

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with references plays an important role in optimizing and evaluating computer vision tasks. Traditional methods assume that all pixels of the reference and test images are fully aligned. Such Aligned-Reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Zhou Wang

Current no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models for enhanced images often struggle to generalize, as they tend to overfit to the distinct patterns of specific enhancement algorithms rather than evaluating genuine perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shiqi Gao , Kang Fu , Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

We describe a novel method for training high-quality image denoising models based on unorganized collections of corrupted images. The training does not need access to clean reference images, or explicit pairs of corrupted images, and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Samuli Laine , Tero Karras , Jaakko Lehtinen , Timo Aila

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging offers a wide variety of imaging techniques. A large amount of data is created per examination which needs to be checked for sufficient quality in order to derive a meaningful diagnosis. This is a manual…

Document quality assessment is critical for a wide range of applications including document digitization, OCR, and archival. However, existing approaches often struggle to provide accurate and robust quality scores, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Junjie Gao , Runze Liu , Yingzhe Peng , Shujian Yang , Jin Zhang , Kai Yang , Zhiyuan You