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Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is a task that predicts the perceptual quality of an image without its reference. Research on BIQA attracts growing attention due to the increasing amount of user-generated images and emerging mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , Xingze He , Yong Yan , C. -C. Jay Kuo

The 4K content can deliver a more immersive visual experience to consumers due to the huge improvement of spatial resolution. However, existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods are not suitable for the original and upscaled 4K…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Wei Lu , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wenhan Zhu , Quan Zhou , Jun He , Qiyuan Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Tao Wang , Guangtao Zhai

The annotation of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is labor-intensive and time-consuming, especially for authentic images. Training on synthetic data is expected to be beneficial, but synthetically trained models often suffer from poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Aobo Li , Jinjian Wu , Yongxu Liu , Leida Li

We propose a deep bilinear model for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) that handles both synthetic and authentic distortions. Our model consists of two convolutional neural networks (CNN), each of which specializes in one distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Jia Yan , Dexiang Deng , Zhou Wang

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains a very challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. Deep learning based BIQA methods have been attracting increasing attention in recent years, yet it remains a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang , Alan C. Bovik

With the development of multimedia technology, Augmented Reality (AR) has become a promising next-generation mobile platform. The primary value of AR is to promote the fusion of digital contents and real-world environments, however, studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Yucheng Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Patrick Le Callet

Surveillance facial images are often captured under unconstrained conditions, resulting in severe quality degradation due to factors such as low resolution, motion blur, occlusion, and poor lighting. Although recent face restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Yanwei Jiang , Wei Sun , Yingjie Zhou , Xiangyang Zhu , Yuqin Cao , Jun Jia , Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Dandan Zhu , Xingkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Textual reasoning has recently been widely adopted in Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA). However, it remains unclear how textual information contributes to quality prediction and to what extent text can represent the score-related image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yuan Li , Shin'ya Nishida

Existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods focus on designing complicated networks based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformer. In addition, some BIQA methods enhance the performance of the model in a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Qunyue Huang , Bin Fang

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate image quality in line with human perception, without reference benchmarks. Currently, deep learning BIQA methods typically depend on using features from high-level tasks for transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Xiawu Zheng , Yutao Liu , ShengChuan Zhang , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

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

Scientific images fundamentally differ from natural and AI-generated images in that they encode structured domain knowledge rather than merely depict visual scenes. Assessing their quality therefore requires evaluating not only perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenzhe Li , Liang Chen , Junying Wang , Yijing Guo , Ye Shen , Farong Wen , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Guangtao Zhai

Nowadays, most existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models 1) are developed for synthetically-distorted images and often generalize poorly to authentic ones; 2) heavily rely on human ratings, which are prohibitively…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhihua Wang , Zhi-Ri Tang , Jianguo Zhang , Yuming Fang

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

Selective classification enables models to make predictions only when they are sufficiently confident, aiming to enhance safety and reliability, which is important in high-stakes scenarios. Previous methods mainly use deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yu-Chang Wu , Shen-Huan Lyu , Haopu Shang , Xiangyu Wang , Chao Qian

The effectiveness of contrastive learning in sequential recommendation hinges on the construction of contrastive views, which ideally should be both semantically consistent and diverse. However, most existing CL-based methods rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Wang

Lowering radiation dose per view and utilizing sparse views per scan are two common CT scan modes, albeit often leading to distorted images characterized by noise and streak artifacts. Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) strives to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

Blind Image Quality Assessment, aiming to replicate human perception of visual quality without reference, plays a key role in vision tasks, yet existing models often fail to effectively capture subtle distortion cues, leading to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bohan Fu , Guanyi Qin , Fazhan Zhang , Zihao Huang , Mingxuan Li , Runze Hu

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

Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) is a highly challenging task due to the intrinsic complexity of video content and visual distortions, especially given the high popularity of social media videos, which originate from a wide range of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Wei Sun , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Zhichao Zhang , Zicheng Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai