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The research in image quality assessment (IQA) has a long history, and significant progress has been made by leveraging recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite high correlation numbers on existing IQA datasets, DNN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Zhihua Wang , Kede Ma

Although subjective tests are most accurate image/video quality assessment tools, they are extremely time demanding. In the past two decades, a variety of objective tools, such as SSIM, IW-SSIM, SPSIM, FSIM, etc., have been devised, that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Majid Behzadpour , Mohammad Ghanbari

The Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) is generally considered to be a milestone in the recent history of Image Quality Assessment (IQA). Alas, SSIM's accepted development from the product of three heuristic factors continues to obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Kieran Gerard Larkin

Existing free-energy guided No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods still suffer from finding a balance between learning feature information at the pixel level of the image and capturing high-level feature information and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoyang Wang , Bo Hu , Mingyang Zhang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

Optical microscopy is one of the most widely used techniques in research studies for life sciences and biomedicine. These applications require reliable experimental pipelines to extract valuable knowledge from the measured samples and must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Elena Corbetta , Thomas Bocklitz

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are increasingly deployed as perceptual critics to guide generative models and image restoration. This role demands not only accurate scores but also actionable, localized feedback. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xudong Li , Jiaxi Tan , Ziyin Zhou , Yan Zhong , Zihao Huang , Jingyuan Zheng , Yan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

There is a growing consensus in the research community that the optimization of low-light image enhancement approaches should be guided by the visual quality perceived by end users. Despite the substantial efforts invested in the design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Hanwei Zhu , Wenhan Yang , Linqi Song , Shiqi Wang

In this work, we introduce Gradient Siamese Network (GSN) for image quality assessment. The proposed method is skilled in capturing the gradient features between distorted images and reference images in full-reference image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Heng Cong , Lingzhi Fu , Rongyu Zhang , Yusheng Zhang , Hao Wang , Jiarong He , Jin Gao

Judging the similarity of visualizations is crucial to various applications, such as visualization-based search and visualization recommendation systems. Recent studies show deep-feature-based similarity metrics correlate well with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sheng Long , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Emma Alexander , Matthew Kay , Jessica Hullman

Recent state-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have achieved impressive performance, yet unconstrained face recognition still represents an open problem. Face image quality assessment (FIQA) approaches aim to estimate the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Deep learning-based quality metrics have recently given significant improvement in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). In the field of stereoscopic vision, information is evenly distributed with slight disparity to the left and right eyes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Oussama Messai , Aladine Chetouani

This paper proposes a data driven model to predict the performance of a face recognition system based on image quality features. We model the relationship between image quality features (e.g. pose, illumination, etc.) and recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Abhishek Dutta , Raymond Veldhuis , Luuk Spreeuwers

How best to evaluate synthesized images has been a longstanding problem in image-to-image translation, and to date remains largely unresolved. This paper proposes a novel approach that combines signals of image quality between paired source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Stefan Borasinski , Esin Yavuz , Sébastien Béhuret

Image quality assessment (IQA) is indispensable in clinical practice to ensure high standards, as well as in the development stage of machine learning algorithms that operate on medical images. The popular full reference (FR) IQA measures…

Objective measures of image quality generally operate by comparing pixels of a "degraded" image to those of the original. Relative to human observers, these measures are overly sensitive to resampling of texture regions (e.g., replacing one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based video quality assessment (VQA) framework to evaluate the quality of the compressed user's generated content (UGC) videos. The proposed VQA framework consists of three modules, the feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Wei Sun , Tao Wang , Xiongkuo Min , Fuwang Yi , Guangtao Zhai

Low-field (LF) MRI scanners (<1T) are still prevalent in settings with limited resources or unreliable power supply. However, they often yield images with lower spatial resolution and contrast than high-field (HF) scanners. This quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Seunghoi Kim , Henry F. J. Tregidgo , Ahmed K. Eldaly , Matteo Figini , Daniel C. Alexander

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of images based on human subjective perception. Existing methods generally combine multiscale features to achieve high performance, but most rely on straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Shaohui Liu , Hong Huang , Feng Jiang

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

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Qingyi Pan , Ning Guo , Letu Qingge , Jingyi Zhang , Pei Yang