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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

Recent advancements in the field of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) using deep learning techniques demonstrate high performance across multiple open-source datasets. However, such models are typically very large and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) is traditionally classified into full-reference (FR) IQA and no-reference (NR) IQA according to whether the original image is required. Although NR-IQA is widely used in practical applications, room for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Haoyi Liang , Daniel S. Weller

The current state-of-the-art No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods typically rely on feature extraction from upstream semantic backbone networks, assuming that all extracted features are relevant. However, we make a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xudong Li , Timin Gao , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jingyuan Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

Although recent efforts in image quality assessment (IQA) have achieved promising performance, there still exists a considerable gap compared to the human visual system (HVS). One significant disparity lies in humans' seamless transition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yi Ke Yun , Weisi Lin

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma

Reliable image quality assessment is essential in applications where large volumes of images are acquired automatically and must be filtered before further analysis. In many practical scenarios, a pristine reference image is unavailable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Koffi Titus Sergio Aglin , Anthony K. Muchiri , Celestin Nkundineza

This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method based on image entropy. The image features are extracted from two domains. In the spatial domain, the mutual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xiaoqiao Chen , Qingyi Zhang , Manhui Lin , Guangyi Yang , Chu He

Automatic perception of image quality is a challenging problem that impacts billions of Internet and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) method termed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhen Zhang

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu

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

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

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 propose a no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method via feature level pseudo-reference (PR) hallucination. The proposed quality assessment framework is grounded on the prior models of natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Chenqi Kong , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Zhu Li

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to predict image quality scores consistent with human perception without relying on pristine reference images, serving as a crucial component in various visual tasks. Ensuring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Chenxi Yang , Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an important element of a broad spectrum of applications ranging from automatic video streaming to display technology. Furthermore, the measurement of image quality requires a balanced investigation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Domonkos Varga

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang