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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) plays a vital role in applications such as image compression, restoration, and multimedia streaming. However, existing metrics often struggle to generalize across diverse image types - particularly between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Mohtashim Baqar , Sian Lun Lau , Mansoor Ebrahim

The rapid advancement of AI-driven visual generation technologies has catalyzed significant breakthroughs in image manipulation, particularly in achieving photorealistic localized editing effects on natural scene images (NSIs). Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiaying Qian , Ziheng Jia , Zicheng Zhang , Zeyu Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Current no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models for enhanced images often struggle to generalize, as they tend to overfit to the distinct patterns of specific enhancement algorithms rather than evaluating genuine perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shiqi Gao , Kang Fu , Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Jia 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

In recent years, the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has attracted widespread attention. Among the AIGC, AI generated omnidirectional images hold significant potential for Virtual Reality (VR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liu Yang , Huiyu Duan , Long Teng , Yucheng Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Menghan Hu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet

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

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) remains an unresolved challenge in computer vision due to complex distortions, diverse image content, and limited data availability. Existing Blind IQA (BIQA) methods largely rely on extensive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xudong Li , Zihao Huang , Yan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Xiawu Zheng , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

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 advances in reasoning-induced image quality assessment (IQA) have demonstrated the power of reinforcement learning to rank (RL2R) for training vision-language models (VLMs) to assess perceptual quality. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiangyong Chen , Xiaochuan Lin , Haoran Liu , Xuan Li , Yichen Su , Xiangwei Guo

The rapid advancement of AI-generated image (AIGI) models presents new challenges for evaluating image quality, particularly across three aspects: perceptual quality, prompt correspondence, and authenticity. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chuan Cui , Kejiang Chen , Zhihua Wei , Wen Shen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent perceptual IR algorithms based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) have brought in significant improvement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

Year after year, the demand for ever-better smartphone photos continues to grow, in particular in the domain of portrait photography. Manufacturers thus use perceptual quality criteria throughout the development of smartphone cameras. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Nicolas Chahine , Ana-Stefania Calarasanu , Davide Garcia-Civiero , Theo Cayla , Sira Ferradans , Jean Ponce

Despite thousands of researchers, engineers, and artists actively working on improving text-to-image generation models, systems often fail to produce images that accurately align with the text inputs. We introduce TIFA (Text-to-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yushi Hu , Benlin Liu , Jungo Kasai , Yizhong Wang , Mari Ostendorf , Ranjay Krishna , Noah A Smith

Due to the scarcity of labeled samples in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) datasets, numerous recent studies have proposed multi-task based strategies, which explore feature information from other tasks or domains to boost the IQA task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Li Yu

Traditional deep neural network (DNN)-based image quality assessment (IQA) models leverage convolutional neural networks (CNN) or Transformer to learn the quality-aware feature representation, achieving commendable performance on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Puyi Wang , Wei Sun , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Yanwei Jiang , Zhichao Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Computer graphics images (CGIs) are artificially generated by means of computer programs and are widely perceived under various scenarios, such as games, streaming media, etc. In practice, the quality of CGIs consistently suffers from poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Yingjie Zhou , Jun Jia , Zhichao Zhang , Jing Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Assessing the performance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been an important topic due to its practical significance. Although several evaluation metrics have been proposed, they generally assess the quality of the whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Jiayi Guo , Chaoqun Du , Jiangshan Wang , Huijuan Huang , Pengfei Wan , Gao Huang

The rapid advancement of generative models has led to a growing volume of AI-generated videos, making the automatic quality assessment of such videos increasingly important. Existing AI-generated content video quality assessment (AIGC-VQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Minghao Zou , Gen Liu , Guanghui Yue , Baoquan Zhao , Zhihua Wang , Paul L. Rosin , Hantao Liu , Wei Zhou

The main challenge in applying state-of-the-art deep learning methods to predict image quality in-the-wild is the relatively small size of existing quality scored datasets. The reason for the lack of larger datasets is the massive resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Hanhe Lin , Vlad Hosu , Dietmar Saupe