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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…

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Super-resolution (SR) techniques have made major advances in reconstructing high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs. The increased resolution provides visual enhancement and utility for monitoring tasks. In particular, SR has been…

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The quality assessment (QA) of restored low light images is an important tool for benchmarking and improving low light restoration (LLR) algorithms. While several LLR algorithms exist, the subjective perception of the restored images has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Vignesh Kannan , Sameer Malik , Rajiv Soundararajan

Deep Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methods have shown impressive high-performance capabilities. Notably, no-reference (NR) VQA methods play a vital role in situations where obtaining reference videos is restricted or not feasible.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Xiaoheng Tan , Jiabin Zhang , Yuhui Quan , Jing Li , Yajing Wu , Zilin Bian

The goal of full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) is to predict the quality of an image as perceived by human observers with using its pristine, reference counterpart. In this study, we explore a novel, combined approach which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Domonkos Varga

Objective image quality metrics try to estimate the perceptual quality of the given image by considering the characteristics of the human visual system. However, it is possible that the metrics produce different quality scores even for two…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Manri Cheon , Toinon Vigier , Lukáš Krasula , Junghyuk Lee , Patrick Le Callet , Jong-Seok Lee

Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between visual images and their perceptual quality by human observers. IQA modeling plays a special bridging role between vision science and engineering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

Blind 360{\deg}image quality assessment (IQA) aims to predict perceptual quality for panoramic images without a pristine reference. Unlike conventional planar images, 360{\deg}content in immersive environments restricts viewers to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yujia Wang , Yuyan Li , Jiuming Liu , Fang-Lue Zhang , Xinhu Zheng , Neil. A Dodgson

With the development of rendering techniques, computer graphics generated images (CGIs) have been widely used in practical application scenarios such as architecture design, video games, simulators, movies, etc. Different from natural scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tao Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

This work presents a novel framework for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) founded on the analysis of directional image curvature. Within this framework, we define a measure of Anisotropic Texture Richness (ATR), which is…

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied to image super-resolution (SR) to enhance the perceptual quality. However, most existing GAN-based SR methods typically perform coarse-grained discrimination directly on images…

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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms evaluate the perceptual quality of an image using evaluation scores that assess the similarity or difference between two images. We propose a new low-level feature based IQA technique, which applies…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Navaneeth K. Kottayil , Irene Cheng , Frederic Dufaux , Anup Basu

Image super-resolution (SR) is a field in computer vision that focuses on reconstructing high-resolution images from the respective low-resolution image. However, super-resolution is a well-known ill-posed problem as most methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Athiya Deviyani , Efe Sinan Hoplamaz , Alan Savio Paul

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent IR methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved significant improvement in visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

Probing the computational underpinnings of subjective experience, or qualia, remains a central challenge in cognitive neuroscience. This project tackles this question by performing a rigorous comparison of the representational geometry of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jing Xu

Recent advances in generative super-resolution (SR) have greatly improved visual realism, yet existing evaluation and optimization frameworks remain misaligned with human perception. Full-Reference and No-Reference metrics often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yushuai Song , Weize Quan , Weining Wang , Jiahui Sun , Jing Liu , Meng Li , Pengbin Yu , Zhentao Chen , Wei Shen , Lunxi Yuan , Dong-ming Yan

Latest advances in Super-Resolution (SR) have been tested with general purpose images such as faces, landscapes and objects, mainly unused for the task of super-resolving Earth Observation (EO) images. In this research paper, we benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 David Berga , Pau Gallés , Katalin Takáts , Eva Mohedano , Laura Riordan-Chen , Clara Garcia-Moll , David Vilaseca , Javier Marín

In this paper, we present a novel method of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), which is to predict the perceptual quality score of a given image without using any reference image. The proposed method harnesses three functions…

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Medical Image Quality Assessment (IQA) serves as the first-mile safety gate for clinical AI, yet existing approaches remain constrained by scalar, score-based metrics and fail to reflect the descriptive, human-like reasoning process central…