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Video Quality Assessment (VQA) aims to evaluate video quality based on perceptual distortions and human preferences. Despite the promising performance of existing methods using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Jiet Vong , Yi-Tsung Lee , Sy-Yen Kuo , Qiang Gao , Sizhuo Ma , Jian Wang

Recent years have witnessed the great success of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) in various task-specific scenarios, which present invariable distortion types and evaluation criteria. However, due to the rigid structure and learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Rui Ma , Qingbo Wu , King Ngi Ngan , Hongliang Li , Fanman Meng , Linfeng Xu

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) of user generated content (UGC) suffers from the range effect which indicates that on the overall quality range, mean opinion score (MOS) and predicted MOS (pMOS) are well correlated; focusing on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Bingheng Li , Fushuo Huo

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

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) is essential for various face-related applications. Although FIQA has been extensively studied and achieved significant progress, the computational complexity of FIQA algorithms remains a key concern for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Xiangyang Zhu , Dandan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Blind 360{\deg}image quality assessment (IQA) aims to predict perceptual quality for panoramic images without a pristine reference. Unlike conventional planar images, 360{\deg}content in immersive environments restricts viewers to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yujia Wang , Yuyan Li , Jiuming Liu , Fang-Lue Zhang , Xinhu Zheng , Neil. A Dodgson

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

Perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) is an integral component of many streaming and video sharing platforms. Here we consider the problem of learning perceptually relevant video quality representations in a self-supervised manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

In learning vision-language representations from web-scale data, the contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) mechanism has demonstrated a remarkable performance in many vision tasks. However, its application to the widely studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fengchuang Xing , Mingjie Li , Yuan-Gen Wang , Guopu Zhu , Xiaochun Cao

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) plays a critical role in face recognition and verification systems, especially in uncontrolled, real-world environments. Although several methods have been proposed, general-purpose no-reference image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 MohammadAli Hamidi , Hadi Amirpour , Luigi Atzori , Christian Timmerer

In multimedia broadcasting, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is used to indicate the user-perceived quality of experience (QoE) and to support intelligent data transmission while optimizing user experience. This paper proposes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Qiang Qu , Xiaoming Chen , Vera Chung , Zhibo Chen

Most of existing blind omnidirectional image quality assessment (BOIQA) models rely on viewport generation by modeling user viewing behavior or transforming omnidirectional images (OIs) into varying formats; however, these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiebin Yan , Kangcheng Wu , Junjie Chen , Ziwen Tan , Yuming Fang

For many computer vision problems, the deep neural networks are trained and validated based on the assumption that the input images are pristine (i.e., artifact-free). However, digital images are subject to a wide range of distortions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Zhuo Chen , Weisi Lin , Shiqi Wang , Long Xu , Leida Li

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to simulate the process of perceiving image quality aligned with subjective human perception. However, existing NR-IQA methods either focus on global representations that leads to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang , Yachun Mi , Wei Zhang , Shaohui Liu

Super-resolution (SR) applied to real-world low-resolution (LR) images often results in complex, irregular degradations that stem from the inherent complexity of natural scene acquisition. In contrast to SR artifacts arising from synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kian Majlessi , Amir Masoud Soltani , Mohammad Ebrahim Mahdavi , Aurelien Gourrier , Peyman Adibi

Digital images contain a lot of redundancies, therefore, compression techniques are applied to reduce the image size without loss of reasonable image quality. Same become more prominent in the case of videos which contains image sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Nisar Ahmed , Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif , Hassan Khalid

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) attempts to improve face recognition (FR) performance by providing additional information about sample quality. Because FIQA methods attempt to estimate the utility of a sample for face recognition, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

Recent advances in reasoning-induced image quality assessment (IQA) have demonstrated the power of reinforcement learning to rank (RL2R) for training vision-language models (VLMs) to assess perceptual quality. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiangyong Chen , Xiaochuan Lin , Haoran Liu , Xuan Li , Yichen Su , Xiangwei Guo

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an active research area in the field of image processing. Most prior works focus on visual quality of natural images captured by cameras. In this paper, we explore visual quality of scanned documents,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Justin Yang , Peter Bauer , Todd Harris , Changhyung Lee , Hyeon Seok Seo , Jan P Allebach , Fengqing Zhu

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) metrics are widely used to quantitatively estimate the extent of image degradation following some forming, restoring, transforming, or enhancing algorithms. We present PyTorch Image Quality (PIQ), a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Sergey Kastryulin , Jamil Zakirov , Denis Prokopenko , Dmitry V. Dylov