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Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) is a crucial control step in biometric pipelines. It ensures only reliable samples are processed to maintain system accuracy. State-of-the-art FIQA methods achieve high utility but typically operate as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Erdi Sarıtaş , Eren Onaran , Vitomir Štruc , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Previous methods typically focus on predicting numerical scores without explanation or providing low-level descriptions lacking precise scores. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Guoqiang Liang , Jianyi Wang , Zhonghua Wu , Shangchen Zhou

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fail to capture the complex causal mechanisms that underlie human perceptual responses to image distortions, limiting their ability to generalize across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Wenhao Shen , Mingliang Zhou , Yu Chen , Xuekai Wei , Jun Luo , Huayan Pu , Weijia Jia

Image contrast was a fundamental factor in visual perception and played a vital role in overall image quality. However, most no reference image quality assessment NR IQA models struggled to accurately evaluate contrast distortions under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Bita Mesbahzadeh , Omid Zare , Emrah Arslan , Roohallah Alizadehsani , Hossein Moosaei

Existing deep network-based full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models typically work by performing pairwise comparisons of deep features from the reference and distorted images. In this paper, we approach this problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Zhang , Jielei Chu , Tian Zhang , Lin Ma , Fengmao Lv , Weide Liu , Tianrui Li , Yuming Fang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) constitutes a fundamental task within the field of computer vision, yet it remains an unresolved challenge, owing to the intricate distortion conditions, diverse image contents, and limited availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Kangmin Xu , Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Chaofeng Chen , Haoning Wu , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

In this paper, we present a novel method of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), which is to predict the perceptual quality score of a given image without using any reference image. The proposed method harnesses three functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Diqi Chen , Yizhou Wang , Tianfu Wu , Wen Gao

This paper addresses the problem of blind stereoscopic image quality assessment (NR-SIQA) using a new multi-task deep learning based-method. In the field of stereoscopic vision, the information is fairly distributed between the left and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Salima Bourbia , Ayoub Karine , Aladine Chetouani , Mohammed El Hassouni

The enormous space and diversity of natural images is usually represented by a few small-scale human-rated image quality assessment (IQA) datasets. This casts great challenges to deep neural network (DNN) based blind IQA (BIQA), which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Shahrukh Athar , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

Scale-invariance is an open problem in many computer vision subfields. For example, object labels should remain constant across scales, yet model predictions diverge in many cases. This problem gets harder for tasks where the ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Oliver Wiedemann , Vlad Hosu , Shaolin Su , Dietmar Saupe

The problem of stereoscopic image quality assessment, which finds applications in 3D visual content delivery such as 3DTV, is investigated in this work. Specifically, we propose a new ParaBoost (parallel-boosting) stereoscopic image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hyunsuk Ko , Rui Song , C. -C. Jay Kuo

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

We propose a perceptual video quality assessment (PVQA) metric for distorted videos by analyzing the power spectral density (PSD) of a group of pictures. This is an estimation approach that relies on the changes in video dynamic calculated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Mohammed A. Aabed , Gukyeong Kwon , Ghassan AlRegib

The deep learning revolution has strongly impacted low-level image processing tasks such as style/domain transfer, enhancement/restoration, and visual quality assessments. Despite often being treated separately, the aforementioned tasks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Cosmin Stejerean , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Hassene Tmar , Alan C. Bovik

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

The content and distortion are widely recognized as the two primary factors affecting the visual quality of an image. While existing No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods have modeled these factors, they fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shuai Liu , Qingyu Mao , Chao Li , Jiacong Chen , Fanyang Meng , Yonghong Tian , Yongsheng Liang

Numerous image superresolution (SR) algorithms have been proposed for reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from input images with lower spatial resolutions. However, effectively evaluating the perceptual quality of SR images remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Wei Zhou , Qiuping Jiang , Yuwang Wang , Zhibo Chen , Weiping Li

This paper presents a novel approach for reduced-reference video quality assessment (VQA), developed as part of the recent VQA Grand Challenge. Our method leverages low-level complexity and structural information from reference and test…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Amritha Premkumar , Prajit T Rajendran , Vignesh V Menon

We present a deep neural network-based approach to image quality assessment (IQA). The network is trained end-to-end and comprises ten convolutional layers and five pooling layers for feature extraction, and two fully connected layers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sebastian Bosse , Dominique Maniry , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek

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