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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a core task in computer vision. Multimodal methods based on vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities in IQA tasks. To address the issues of excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yongkang Hou , Jiarun Song

Nowadays, most existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models 1) are developed for synthetically-distorted images and often generalize poorly to authentic ones; 2) heavily rely on human ratings, which are prohibitively…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhihua Wang , Zhi-Ri Tang , Jianguo Zhang , Yuming Fang

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 Quality Assessment (IQA) is essential in various Computer Vision tasks such as image deblurring and super-resolution. However, most IQA methods require reference images, which are not always available. While there are some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Han Cui , Alfredo De Goyeneche , Efrat Shimron , Boyuan Ma , Michael Lustig

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods often fail to capture the complex causal mechanisms that underlie human perceptual responses to image distortions, limiting their ability to generalize across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Wenhao Shen , Mingliang Zhou , Yu Chen , Xuekai Wei , Jun Luo , Huayan Pu , Weijia Jia

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

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

It is well-known that there is no universal metric for image quality evaluation. In this case, distortion-specific metrics can be more reliable. The artifact imposed by image compression can be considered as a combination of various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 S. Farhad Hosseini-Benvidi , Hossein Motamednia , Azadeh Mansouri , Mohammadreza Raei , Ahmad Mahmoudi-Aznaveh

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

Diffusion-based models have recently revolutionized image generation, achieving unprecedented levels of fidelity. However, consistent generation of high-quality images remains challenging partly due to the lack of conditioning mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khaled Abud , Sergey Lavrushkin , Alexey Kirillov , Dmitriy Vatolin

In this work, we present a novel dataset consisting of eye movements and verbal descriptions recorded synchronously over images. Using this data, we study the differences in human attention during free-viewing and image captioning tasks. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Sen He , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Ali Borji , Nicolas Pugeault

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a challenging task that requires training on massive datasets to achieve accurate predictions. However, due to the lack of IQA data, deep learning-based IQA methods typically rely on pre-trained networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xinpeng Li , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Visual (image, video) quality assessments can be modelled by visual features in different domains, e.g., spatial, frequency, and temporal domains. Perceptual mechanisms in the human visual system (HVS) play a crucial role in generation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Junyong You , Zheng Zhang

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) focuses on designing methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception when a high-quality reference image is unavailable. Most state-of-the-art NR-IQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in image quality assessment (IQA) tasks. However, adapting such large-scale models is computationally expensive and still relies on substantial Mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xinyue Li , Zhichao Zhang , Zhiming Xu , Shubo Xu , Xiongkuo Min , Yitong Chen , Guangtao Zhai

Perceptual video quality assessment plays a vital role in the field of video processing due to the existence of quality degradations introduced in various stages of video signal acquisition, compression, transmission and display. With the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xiongkuo Min , Huiyu Duan , Wei Sun , Yucheng Zhu , Guangtao Zhai

Perceptual optimization is primarily driven by the fidelity objective, which enforces both semantic consistency and overall visual realism, while the adversarial objective provides complementary refinement by enhancing perceptual sharpness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiabei Zhang , Qi Wang , Siyu Wu , Du Chen , Tianhe Wu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved impressive results today, but not all generated images are perfect. A number of quantitative criteria have recently emerged for generative model, but none of them are designed for a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision that has witnessed remarkable progress with deep neural networks. Inspired by the characteristics of the human visual system, existing methods typically use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chaofeng Chen , Jiadi Mo , Jingwen Hou , Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) is essential for various face-related applications. Although FIQA has been extensively studied and achieved significant progress, the computational complexity of FIQA algorithms remains a key concern for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Xiangyang Zhu , Dandan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai