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The explosive growth of image data facilitates the fast development of image processing and computer vision methods for emerging visual applications, meanwhile introducing novel distortions to the processed images. This poses a grand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Chao Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have introduced a paradigm shift for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) from unexplainable image quality scoring to explainable IQA, demonstrating practical applications like quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenjie Liao , Jieyu Yuan , Yifang Xu , Chunle Guo , Zilong Zhang , Jihong Li , Jiachen Fu , Haotian Fan , Tao Li , Junhui Cui , Chongyi Li

With the rapid advancement of Vision Language Models (VLMs), VLM-based Image Quality Assessment (IQA) seeks to describe image quality linguistically to align with human expression and capture the multifaceted nature of IQA tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhiyuan You , Jinjin Gu , Xin Cai , Zheyuan Li , Kaiwen Zhu , Chao Dong , Tianfan Xue

Blind dehazed image quality assessment (BDQA), which aims to accurately predict the visual quality of dehazed images without any reference information, is essential for the evaluation, comparison, and optimization of image dehazing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yirui Zeng , Jun Fu , Hadi Amirpour , Huasheng Wang , Guanghui Yue , Hantao Liu , Ying Chen , Wei Zhou

Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is the task of predicting the visual quality of an image as perceived by a human observer. Current state-of-the-art techniques are based on deep representations trained in discriminative manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Simon Raviv , Gal Chechik

In recent years, deep learning has achieved promising success for multimedia quality assessment, especially for image quality assessment (IQA). However, since there exist more complex temporal characteristics in videos, very little work has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

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

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

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

A good distortion representation is crucial for the success of deep blind image quality assessment (BIQA). However, most previous methods do not effectively model the relationship between distortions or the distribution of samples with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Simeng Sun , Tao Yu , Jiahua Xu , Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

It is well-known that there is no universal metric for image quality evaluation. In this case, distortion-specific metrics can be more reliable. The artifact imposed by image compression can be considered as a combination of various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 S. Farhad Hosseini-Benvidi , Hossein Motamednia , Azadeh Mansouri , Mohammadreza Raei , Ahmad Mahmoudi-Aznaveh

Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) is a highly challenging task due to the intrinsic complexity of video content and visual distortions, especially given the high popularity of social media videos, which originate from a wide range of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Wei Sun , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Zhichao Zhang , Zicheng Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models aim to predict perceptual image quality in alignment with human judgments. No-Reference (NR) IQA remains particularly challenging due to the absence of a reference image. While deep learning has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Rajesh Sureddi , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

Contrast change is an important factor that affects the quality of images. During image capturing, unfavorable lighting conditions can cause contrast change and visual quality loss. While various methods have been proposed to assess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour , Saeed Mahmoudpour

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Research on image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited mainly due to our incomplete knowledge about human visual perception. Existing IQA algorithms have been designed or trained with insufficient subjective data with a small degree of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lucie Lévêque , Ji Yang , Xiaohan Yang , Pengfei Guo , Kenneth Dasalla , Leida Li , Yingying Wu , Hantao Liu

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

This short paper presents a perspective plan to build a null reference image quality assessment. Its main goal is to deliver both the objective score and the distortion map for a given distorted image without the knowledge of its reference…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Stéfane Paris

Image quality assessment (IQA) has long been a fundamental challenge in image understanding. In recent years, deep learning-based IQA methods have shown promising performance. However, the lack of large amounts of labeled data in the IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Xiaojiang Peng , Jie Qin

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) is an essential task that estimates the perceptual quality of images without reference. While many BIQA methods employ deep neural networks (DNNs) and incorporate saliency detectors to enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo