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Nowadays, neural-network-based image- and video-quality metrics perform better than traditional methods. However, they also became more vulnerable to adversarial attacks that increase metrics' scores without improving visual quality. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Anastasia Antsiferova , Khaled Abud , Aleksandr Gushchin , Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Sergey Lavrushkin , Dmitriy Vatolin

Purpose: Reliable image quality assessment is crucial for evaluating new motion correction methods for magnetic resonance imaging. In this work, we compare the performance of commonly used reference-based and reference-free image quality…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Elisa Marchetto , Hannah Eichhorn , Daniel Gallichan , Julia A. Schnabel , Melanie Ganz

New micro-satellite constellations enable unprecedented systematic monitoring applications thanks to their wide coverage and short revisit capabilities. However, the large volumes of images that they produce have uneven qualities, creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Jérémy Anger , Carlo de Franchis , Gabriele Facciolo

The process of rendering high dynamic range (HDR) images to be viewed on conventional displays is called tone mapping. However, tone mapping introduces distortions in the final image which may lead to visual displeasure. To quantify these…

A reliable quality assessment procedure for pansharpening methods is of critical importance for the development of the related solutions. Unfortunately, the lack of ground-truths to be used as guidance for an objective evaluation has pushed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Giuseppe Scarpa , Matteo Ciotola

Development of perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) metrics has been of significant interest to computer vision community. The aim of these metrics is to model quality of an image as perceived by humans. Recent works in Full-reference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Saikat Dutta , Sourya Dipta Das , Nisarg A. Shah

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

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown remarkable performance in neural rendering-based novel view synthesis. However, NeRF suffers from severe visual quality degradation when the input images have been captured under imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Byeonghyeon Lee , Howoong Lee , Usman Ali , Eunbyung Park

Assessing the visual quality of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images is an unexplored and an interesting research topic that has become relevant with the current boom in HDR technology. We propose a new convolutional neural network based model…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux , Irene Cheng

Purpose: Many useful image quality metrics for evaluating linear image reconstruction techniques do not apply to or are difficult to interpret for non-linear image reconstruction. The vast majority of metrics employed for evaluating…

Image metrics predict the perceived per-pixel difference between a reference image and its degraded (e. g., re-rendered) version. In several important applications, the reference image is not available and image metrics cannot be applied.…

Image quality assessment(IQA) is of increasing importance for image-based applications. Its purpose is to establish a model that can replace humans for accurately evaluating image quality. According to whether the reference image is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Lanjiang Wang

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

This paper studies the problem of full reference visual quality assessment of denoised images with a special emphasis on images with low contrast and noise-like texture. Denoising of such images together with noise removal often results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Karen Egiazarian , Mykola Ponomarenko , Vladimir Lukin , Oleg Ieremeiem

To support the application scenarios where high-resolution (HR) images are urgently needed, various single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms are developed. However, SISR is an ill-posed inverse problem, which may bring artifacts like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wenhan Zhu , Tao Wang , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

Omnidirectional images, aka 360 images, can deliver immersive and interactive visual experiences. As their popularity has increased dramatically in recent years, evaluating the quality of 360 images has become a problem of interest since it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Nafiseh Jabbari Tofighi , Mohamed Hedi Elfkir , Nevrez Imamoglu , Cagri Ozcinar , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

We present a novel method that allows for measuring the quality of diffusion-weighted MR images dependent on the image resolution and the image noise. For this purpose, we introduce a new thresholding technique so that noise and the signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Jan Klein , Sebastiano Barbieri , Miriam H. A. Bauer , Christopher Nimsky , Horst K. Hahn

The paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network. Our method trains a lightweight deep network, DCE-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Chen Change Loy , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Runmin Cong

In this paper, we propose a novel design of Human Visual System (HVS) response in a convolution filter form to decompose meaningful features that are closely tied with image sharpness level. No-reference (NR) Image sharpness assessment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Yueyang Zhang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In this paper, we quest the capability of transferring the quality of natural scene images to the images that are not acquired by optical cameras (e.g., screen content images, SCIs), rooted in the widely accepted view that the human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Baoliang Chen , Haoliang Li , Hongfei Fan , Shiqi Wang