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Attention mechanism has demonstrated great potential in fine-grained visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we present a counterfactual attention learning method to learn more effective attention based on causal inference. Unlike most…

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Recent developments in gradient-based attention modeling have seen attention maps emerge as a powerful tool for interpreting convolutional neural networks. Despite good localization for an individual class of interest, these techniques…

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With the advent of image super-resolution (SR) algorithms, how to evaluate the quality of generated SR images has become an urgent task. Although full-reference methods perform well in SR image quality assessment (SR-IQA), their reliance on…

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Objective image quality assessment (IQA) is imperative in the current multimedia-intensive world, in order to assess the visual quality of an image at close to a human level of ability. Many~parameters such as color intensity, structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Md Abu Layek , Sanjida Afroz , TaeChoong Chung , Eui-Nam Huh

Contrastive self-supervised learning has shown impressive results in learning visual representations from unlabeled images by enforcing invariance against different data augmentations. However, the learned representations are often…

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Effective feature fusion of multispectral images plays a crucial role in multi-spectral object detection. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of feature fusion using convolutional neural networks, but these methods are…

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Real-scene image super-resolution aims to restore real-world low-resolution images into their high-quality versions. A typical RealSR framework usually includes the optimization of multiple criteria which are designed for different image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yukai Shi , Hao Li , Sen Zhang , Zhijing Yang , Xiao Wang

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

Subjective perceptual image quality can be assessed in lab studies by human observers. Objective image quality assessment (IQA) refers to algorithms for estimation of the mean subjective quality ratings. Many such methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Markus Wagner , Hanhe Lin , Shujun Li , Dietmar Saupe

A long-held challenge in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) learning from human subjective perception is the lack of objective generalization to unseen natural distortions. To address this, we integrate a novel Depth-Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vaishnav Ramesh , Junliang Liu , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

No-reference point cloud quality assessment (NR-PCQA) aims to automatically evaluate the perceptual quality of distorted point clouds without available reference, which have achieved tremendous improvements due to the utilization of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Ziyu Shan , Yujie Zhang , Qi Yang , Haichen Yang , Yiling Xu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiaozhong Xu , Shan Liu

The quality of face images significantly influences the performance of underlying face recognition algorithms. Face image quality assessment (FIQA) estimates the utility of the captured image in achieving reliable and accurate recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Fadi Boutros , Meiling Fang , Marcel Klemt , Biying Fu , Naser Damer

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

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) for ultrahighdefinition (UHD) images remains challenging because native-resolution inference is computationally expensive, whereas aggressive resizing or isolated cropping may suppress scale-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shaode Yu , Enqi Chen , Ming Huang , Xuemin Ren , Songnan Zhao , Zhicheng Zhang , Qiurui Sun

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

Implicit degradation modeling-based blind super-resolution (SR) has attracted more increasing attention in the community due to its excellent generalization to complex degradation scenarios and wide application range. How to extract more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiang Yuan , Ji Ma , Bo Wang , Weiming Hu

Ensemble methods are generally regarded to be better than a single model if the base learners are deemed to be "accurate" and "diverse." Here we investigate a semi-supervised ensemble learning strategy to produce generalizable blind image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zhihua Wang , Dingquan Li , Kede Ma

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images in accordance with human subjective perception. Unfortunately, existing NR-IQA methods are far from meeting the needs of predicting accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Shuwei Shi , Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Mingdeng Cao , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang

Medical image segmentation, or computing voxelwise semantic masks, is a fundamental yet challenging task to compute a voxel-level semantic mask. To increase the ability of encoder-decoder neural networks to perform this task across large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ho Hin Lee , Yucheng Tang , Qi Yang , Xin Yu , Shunxing Bao , Leon Y. Cai , Lucas W. Remedios , Bennett A. Landman , Yuankai Huo