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Face swapping has become a prominent research area in computer vision and image processing due to rapid technological advancements. The metric of measuring the quality in most face swapping methods relies on several distances between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xinghui Zhou , Wenbo Zhou , Tianyi Wei , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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

Deep neural networks have demonstrated impressive success in No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). However, recent researches highlight the vulnerability of NR-IQA models to subtle adversarial perturbations, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Chenxi Yang , Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Yan Zhong , Tingting Jiang

Recently, the area of adversarial attacks on image quality metrics has begun to be explored, whereas the area of defences remains under-researched. In this study, we aim to cover that case and check the transferability of adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aleksandr Gushchin , Anna Chistyakova , Vladislav Minashkin , Anastasia Antsiferova , Dmitriy Vatolin

Image compression has raised widespread interest recently due to its significant importance for multimedia storage and transmission. Meanwhile, a reliable image quality assessment (IQA) for compressed images can not only help to verify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jianzhao Liu , Xin Li , Yanding Peng , Tao Yu , Zhibo Chen

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) measures and predicts perceived image quality by human observers. Although recent studies have highlighted the critical influence that variations in the scale of an image have on its perceived quality, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Vlad Hosu , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Daisuke Iso , Dietmar Saupe

Super-resolution (SR), a classical inverse problem in computer vision, is inherently ill-posed, inducing a distribution of plausible solutions for every input. However, the desired result is not simply the expectation of this distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Fengjia Zhang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Afsaneh Fazly , Alex Levinshtein

Image composition involves extracting a foreground object from one image and pasting it into another image through Image harmonization algorithms (IHAs), which aim to adjust the appearance of the foreground object to better match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Guangji Ma , Liu Yang , Jiarui Wang , Qingbo Wu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) plays a critical role in face recognition and verification systems, especially in uncontrolled, real-world environments. Although several methods have been proposed, general-purpose no-reference image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 MohammadAli Hamidi , Hadi Amirpour , Luigi Atzori , Christian Timmerer

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) is a proliferating paradigm for LMM training. Analogous to high-level reasoning tasks, RFT is similarly applicable to low-level vision domains, including image quality assessment (IQA). Existing RFT-based IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ziheng Jia , Jiaying Qian , Zicheng Zhang , Zijian Chen , Xiongkuo Min

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are employed in many practical image and video processing pipelines to reduce storage, minimize transmission costs, and improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) of millions of viewers. These models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Krishna Srikar Durbha , Asvin Kumar Venkataramanan , Rajesh Sureddi , Alan C. Bovik

Although subjective tests are most accurate image/video quality assessment tools, they are extremely time demanding. In the past two decades, a variety of objective tools, such as SSIM, IW-SSIM, SPSIM, FSIM, etc., have been devised, that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Majid Behzadpour , Mohammad Ghanbari

Stability guarantees have emerged as a principled way to evaluate feature attributions, but existing certification methods rely on heavily smoothed classifiers and often produce conservative guarantees. To address these limitations, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Helen Jin , Anton Xue , Weiqiu You , Surbhi Goel , Eric Wong

With the rising demand for high-resolution (HR) images, No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) gains more attention, as it can ecaluate image quality in real-time on mobile devices and enhance user experience. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zewen Chen , Sunhan Xu , Yun Zeng , Haochen Guo , Jian Guo , Shuai Liu , Juan Wang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Dehua Liu , Hesong Li

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

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

Embodied AI has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is still mainly deployed in laboratories, with various distortions in the Real-world limiting its application. Traditionally, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods are applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Chunyi Li , Jiaohao Xiao , Jianbo Zhang , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Yuan Tian , Xiangyang Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Zhengxue Cheng , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

In practical media distribution systems, visual content usually undergoes multiple stages of quality degradation along the delivery chain, but the pristine source content is rarely available at most quality monitoring points along the chain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Shahrukh Athar , Zhou Wang

Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean Ponce