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Deep learning based image quality assessment (IQA) models usually learn to predict image quality from a single dataset, leading the model to overfit specific scenes. To account for this, mixed datasets training can be an effective way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zhaopeng Feng , Keyang Zhang , Shuyue Jia , Baoliang Chen , Shiqi Wang

When developing machine learning models, image quality assessment (IQA) measures are a crucial component for the evaluation of obtained output images. However, commonly used full-reference IQA (FR-IQA) measures have been primarily developed…

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

The integration of users and experts in machine learning is a widely studied topic in artificial intelligence literature. Similarly, human-computer interaction research extensively explores the factors that influence the acceptance of AI as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Jaroslaw Kornowicz , Kirsten Thommes

8 years after the visual question answering (VQA) task was proposed, accuracy remains the primary metric for automatic evaluation. VQA Accuracy has been effective so far in the IID evaluation setting. However, our community is undergoing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Oscar Mañas , Benno Krojer , Aishwarya Agrawal

This survey aims at reviewing recent computer vision techniques used in the assessment of image aesthetic quality. Image aesthetic assessment aims at computationally distinguishing high-quality photos from low-quality ones based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

The performance of face analysis and recognition systems depends on the quality of the acquired face data, which is influenced by numerous factors. Automatically assessing the quality of face data in terms of biometric utility can thus be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Torsten Schlett , Christian Rathgeb , Olaf Henniger , Javier Galbally , Julian Fierrez , Christoph Busch

Subjective image quality measures based on deep neural networks are very related to models of visual neuroscience. This connection benefits engineering but, more interestingly, the freedom to optimize deep networks in different ways, make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Pablo Hernández-Cámara , Jorge Vila-Tomás , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an important research topic for understanding and improving visual experience. The current state-of-the-art IQA methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The performance of CNN-based models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Junjie Ke , Qifei Wang , Yilin Wang , Peyman Milanfar , Feng Yang

Recent advances in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) have leveraged Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate descriptive explanations. However, despite their strong visual perception modules, these models often fail to reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuan Li , Zitang Sun , Yen-Ju Chen , Shin'ya Nishida

There is growing enthusiasm about the potential for humans and AI to collaborate by leveraging their respective strengths. Yet in practice, this promise often falls short. This paper uses an online experiment to identify non-instrumental…

General Economics · Economics 2025-06-17 David Almog

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aim to simulate human subjective perception of image visual quality and aesthetic appeal. Despite distinct learning objectives, they have underlying interconnectedness due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hantao Zhou , Longxiang Tang , Rui Yang , Guanyi Qin , Yan Zhang , Yutao Li , Xiu Li , Runze Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Teledermatology has become a widely accepted communication method in daily clinical practice, enabling remote care while showing strong agreement with in-person visits. Poor image quality remains an unsolved problem in teledermatology and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Ignacio Hernández Montilla , Alfonso Medela , Paola Pasquali , Andy Aguilar , Taig Mac Carthy , Gerardo Fernández , Antonio Martorell , Enrique Onieva

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

Performance of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models has been significantly boosted by end-to-end optimization of feature engineering and quality regression. Nevertheless, due to the distributional shift between images simulated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Quality assessment and aesthetics assessment aim to evaluate the perceived quality and aesthetics of visual content. Current learning-based methods suffer greatly from the scarcity of labeled data and usually perform sub-optimally in terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Qizhi Xie , Kun Yuan , Yunpeng Qu , Mingda Wu , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Jihong Zhu

It is an important task to faithfully evaluate the perceptual quality of output images in many applications such as image compression, image restoration and multimedia streaming. A good image quality assessment (IQA) model should not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wufeng Xue , Lei Zhang , Xuanqin Mou , Alan C. Bovik

Compared to machines, humans are extremely good at classifying images into categories, especially when they possess prior knowledge of the categories at hand. If this prior information is not available, supervision in the form of teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Edward Johns , Oisin Mac Aodha , Gabriel J. Brostow

In this paper, we make the first attempt to align diffusion models for image inpainting with human aesthetic standards via a reinforcement learning framework, significantly improving the quality and visual appeal of inpainted images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kendong Liu , Zhiyu Zhu , Chuanhao Li , Hui Liu , Huanqiang Zeng , Junhui Hou

Robots that interact with humans must adapt to individual users' preferences to operate effectively in human-centered environments. An intuitive and effective technique to learn non-expert users' preferences is through rankings of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Nathaniel Dennler , Zhonghao Shi , Yiran Tao , Andreea Bobu , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Maja Matarić