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The quality of a face crop in an image is decided by many factors such as camera resolution, distance, and illumination condition. This makes the discrimination of face images with different qualities a challenging problem in realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Youzhe Song , Feng Wang

We introduce a Depicted image Quality Assessment method (DepictQA), overcoming the constraints of traditional score-based methods. DepictQA allows for detailed, language-based, human-like evaluation of image quality by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhiyuan You , Zheyuan Li , Jinjin Gu , Zhenfei Yin , Tianfan Xue , Chao Dong

Among the various image quality assessment (IQA) tasks, blind IQA (BIQA) is particularly challenging due to the absence of knowledge about the reference image and distortion type. Features based on natural scene statistics (NSS) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wufeng Xue , Xuanqin Mou , Lei Zhang

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of image storage and transmission systems, in which image compression plays an important role. Generally speaking, image compression algorithms are developed to ensure good visual quality at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Wei Wu , Ying Chen , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Unifying Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) in a single multimodal large language model is appealing, yet existing methods adopt a task-agnostic recipe that applies the same reasoning strategy and reward to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Wen Yin , Cencen Liu , Dingrui Liu , Bing Su , Yuan-Fang Li , Tao He

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

Generative models for image restoration, enhancement, and generation have significantly improved the quality of the generated images. Surprisingly, these models produce more pleasant images to the human eye than other methods, yet, they may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Marcos V. Conde , Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

The rapid development of text-to-image (T2I) generation approaches has attracted extensive interest in evaluating the quality of generated images, leading to the development of various quality assessment methods for general-purpose T2I…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Wei Sun , Zhichao Zhang , Yucheng Zhu , Zicheng Zhang , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Traditional in the wild image quality assessment (IQA) models are generally trained with the quality labels of mean opinion score (MOS), while missing the rich subjective quality information contained in the quality ratings, for example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiongkuo Min , Yixuan Gao , Yuqin Cao , Guangtao Zhai , Wenjun Zhang , Huifang Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Compositing is one of the most common operations in photo editing. To generate realistic composites, the appearances of foreground and background need to be adjusted to make them compatible. Previous approaches to harmonize composites have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Xiaohui Shen , Zhe Lin , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Xin Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image quality assessment (IQA) serves as the golden standard for all models' performance in nearly all computer vision fields. However, it still suffers from poor out-of-distribution generalization ability and expensive training costs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Kai Liu , Ziqing Zhang , Wenbo Li , Renjing Pei , Fenglong Song , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Omnidirectional images and videos can provide immersive experience of real-world scenes in Virtual Reality (VR) environment. We present a perceptual omnidirectional image quality assessment (IQA) study in this paper since it is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min , Yucheng Zhu , Yi Fang , Xiaokang Yang

Image aesthetic assessment (IAA) evaluates image aesthetics, a task complicated by image diversity and user subjectivity. Current approaches address this in two stages: Generic IAA (GIAA) models estimate mean aesthetic scores, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Li-Wei Chen , Ombretta Strafforello , Anne-Sofie Maerten , Tinne Tuytelaars , Johan Wagemans

Image aesthetic assessment (IAA) aims to predict the aesthetic quality of images as perceived by humans. While recent IAA models achieve strong predictive performance, they offer little insight into the factors driving their predictions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiao-Chang Liu , Johan Wagemans

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

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) provides information on protein expression in tissue sections and is commonly used to support pathology diagnosis and disease triage. While AI models for H\&E-stained slides show promise, their applicability to…

Aesthetic quality assessment (AQA) is a challenging task due to complex aesthetic factors. Currently, it is common to conduct AQA using deep neural networks that require fixed-size inputs. Existing methods mainly transform images by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Gengyun Jia , Peipei Li , Ran He

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with references plays an important role in optimizing and evaluating computer vision tasks. Traditional methods assume that all pixels of the reference and test images are fully aligned. Such Aligned-Reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Zhou Wang

In the field of image processing, applying intricate semantic modifications within existing images remains an enduring challenge. This paper introduces a pioneering framework that integrates viewpoint information to enhance the control of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jinbin Bai , Zhen Dong , Aosong Feng , Xiao Zhang , Tian Ye , Kaicheng Zhou

The visual quality of an image is confounded by a number of intertwined factors including its semantic content, distortion characteristics and appearance properties such as brightness, contrast, sharpness, and colourfulness. Distilling high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fei Zhou , Tianhao Gu , Zhicong Huang , Guoping Qiu