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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

We introduce a new large-scale dataset that links the assessment of image quality issues to two practical vision tasks: image captioning and visual question answering. First, we identify for 39,181 images taken by people who are blind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tai-Yin Chiu , Yinan Zhao , Danna Gurari

We introduce a novel Image Quality Assessment (IQA) dataset comprising 6073 UHD-1 (4K) images, annotated at a fixed width of 3840 pixels. Contrary to existing No-Reference (NR) IQA datasets, ours focuses on highly aesthetic photos of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Vlad Hosu , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Oliver Wiedemann , Daisuke Iso , Dietmar Saupe

Image quality assessment (IQA) is inherently complex, as it reflects both the quantification and interpretation of perceptual quality rooted in the human visual system. Conventional approaches typically rely on fixed models to output scalar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanwei Zhu , Yu Tian , Keyan Ding , Baoliang Chen , Bolin Chen , Shiqi Wang , Weisi Lin

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains a very challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. Deep learning based BIQA methods have been attracting increasing attention in recent years, yet it remains a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang , Alan C. Bovik

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

Learning based image quality assessment (IQA) models have obtained impressive performance with the help of reliable subjective quality labels, where mean opinion score (MOS) is the most popular choice. However, in view of the subjective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Lei Wang , Qingbo Wu , Desen Yuan , King Ngi Ngan , Hongliang Li , Fanman Meng , Linfeng Xu

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

In recent years, the field of generative artificial intelligence, particularly in the domain of image generation, has exerted a profound influence on society. Despite the capability of AI to produce images of high quality, the augmentation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jize Wang , Kazuhisa Nakano , Daiyannan Chen , Zhengyu Huang , Tsukasa Fukusato , Kazunori Miyata , Haoran Xie

In this paper, we propose an image quality transformer (IQT) that successfully applies a transformer architecture to a perceptual full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) task. Perceptual representation becomes more important in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Manri Cheon , Sung-Jun Yoon , Byungyeon Kang , Junwoo Lee

With the increasing adoption of iris recognition systems and the expansion of large-scale enrollment databases, there is a growing need to efficiently assess iris image quality at the time of acquisition, particularly to model user…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Jack Pessaud , Eric Moran , John Nguyen , Joel Palko

The explosive growth of image data facilitates the fast development of image processing and computer vision methods for emerging visual applications, meanwhile introducing novel distortions to the processed images. This poses a grand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Chao Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

With technology for digital photography and high resolution displays rapidly evolving and gaining popularity, there is a growing demand for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models for high resolution images. Unfortunately, the publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Huang Huang , Qiang Wan , Jari Korhonen

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) remains a challenging task due to the diversity of distortions and the lack of large annotated datasets. Many studies have attempted to tackle these challenges by developing more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models benefit significantly from semantic information, which allows them to treat different types of objects distinctly. Currently, leveraging semantic information to enhance IQA is a crucial research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wensheng Pan , Timin Gao , Yan Zhang , Runze Hu , Xiawu Zheng , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yutao Liu , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

The increasing popularity of short video platforms such as YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Kwai has led to a surge in User-Generated Content (UGC), which presents significant challenges for the generalization performance of Video Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xinli Yue , Jianhui Sun , Liangchao Yao , Fan Xia , Yuetang Deng , Tianyi Wang , Lei Li , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lv , Qian Wang , Lingchen Zhao

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) algorithms are being integrated into online identity management applications. These applications allow users to upload a face image as part of their document issuance process, where the image is then run…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wassim Kabbani , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

BIQA (Blind Image Quality Assessment) is an important field of study that evaluates images automatically. Although significant progress has been made, blind image quality assessment remains a difficult task since images vary in content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Xu Wei , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed , Zhu Shuangtong , Xin Liu , Yimei Xu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empowered Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to achieve superior human preference alignment in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, existing RL-based IQA models typically rely on coarse-grained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Xiang Li , Xueheng Li , Yu Wang , Xuanhua He , Zhangchi Hu , Weiwei Yu , Chengjun Xie

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