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The task of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to estimate the quality score of an input image without additional information. NR-IQA models play a crucial role in the media industry, aiding in performance evaluation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yujia Liu , Chenxi Yang , Dingquan Li , Jianhao Ding , Tingting Jiang

The current state-of-the-art No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods typically rely on feature extraction from upstream semantic backbone networks, assuming that all extracted features are relevant. However, we make a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xudong Li , Timin Gao , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jingyuan Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

Image quality assessment (IQA) plays a critical role in optimizing radiation dose and developing novel medical imaging techniques in computed tomography (CT). Traditional IQA methods relying on hand-crafted features have limitations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Tao Song , Ruizhi Hou , Lisong Dai , Lei Xiang

In this paper, we propose a No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NRIQA) guided cut-off point selection (CPS) strategy to enhance the performance of a fine-grained classification system. Scores given by existing NRIQA methods on the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Joseph Smith , Zheming Zuo , Jonathan Stonehouse , Boguslaw Obara

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent perceptual IR algorithms based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) have brought in significant improvement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

Reasoning-based image quality assessment (IQA) models trained through reinforcement learning (RL) exhibit exceptional generalization, yet the underlying mechanisms and critical factors driving this capability remain underexplored in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shijie Zhao , Xuanyu Zhang , Weiqi Li , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Tianfan Xue , Jian Zhang

Deep neural networks have demonstrated impressive success in No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). However, recent researches highlight the vulnerability of NR-IQA models to subtle adversarial perturbations, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Chenxi Yang , Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Yan Zhong , Tingting Jiang

This paper uses robust statistics and curvelet transform to learn a general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) model. The new approach, here called M1, competes with the Curvelet Quality Assessment proposed in 2014…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ramon Giostri Campos , Evandro Ottoni Teatini Salles

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a critical task in a wide range of applications but remains challenging due to the subjective nature of human perception and the complexity of real-world image distortions. This study proposes MetaQAP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nisar Ahmed , Gulshan Saleem , Nazik Alturki , Nada Alasbali

Reasoning-induced vision-language models (VLMs) advance image quality assessment (IQA) with textual reasoning, yet their scalar scores often lack sensitivity and collapse to a few values, so-called discrete collapse. We introduce ME-IQA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kanglong Fan , Tianhe Wu , Wen Wen , Jianzhao Liu , Le Yang , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Recent advancements in image quality assessment (IQA), driven by sophisticated deep neural network designs, have significantly improved the ability to approach human perceptions. However, most existing methods are obsessed with fitting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shunyu Yao , Ming Liu , Zhilu Zhang , Zhaolin Wan , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Wangmeng Zuo

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment for distorted images has always been a challenging problem due to image content variance and distortion diversity. Previous IQA models mostly encode explicit single-quality features of synthetic images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Jingtong Yue , Xin Lin , Zijiu Yang , Chao Ren

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

A long-held challenge in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) learning from human subjective perception is the lack of objective generalization to unseen natural distortions. To address this, we integrate a novel Depth-Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vaishnav Ramesh , Junliang Liu , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to quantify how humans perceive visual distortions of digital images without access to their undistorted references. NR-IQA models are extensively studied in computational vision, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Guodong Guo , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

New multinuclear MRI techniques, such as sodium MRI, generally suffer from low image quality due to an inherently low signal. Postprocessing methods, such as image denoising, have been developed for image enhancement. However, the…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empowered Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to achieve superior human preference alignment in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, existing RL-based IQA models typically rely on coarse-grained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Xiang Li , Xueheng Li , Yu Wang , Xuanhua He , Zhangchi Hu , Weiwei Yu , Chengjun Xie

Automatic Perceptual Image Quality Assessment is a challenging problem that impacts billions of internet, and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a Mixture of Experts approach to train two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Avinab Saha , Sandeep Mishra , Alan C. Bovik

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

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