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User-generated content (UGC) live videos are often bothered by various distortions during capture procedures and thus exhibit diverse visual qualities. Such source videos are further compressed and transcoded by media server providers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Wu , Wei Sun , Dangyang Tu , Wei Lu , Xiongkuo Min , Ying Chen , Guangtao Zhai

Short-form video poses new challenges to the quality assessment of user-generated content (UGC) due to its complex generation pipeline, rapid content variation, and mixed distortions. To address this challenge, we propose an end-to-end…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , Junxiao Shen , David Bull

Video shakiness is an unpleasant distortion of User Generated Content (UGC) videos, which is usually caused by the unstable hold of cameras. In recent years, many video stabilization algorithms have been proposed, yet no specific and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tengchuan Kou , Xiaohong Liu , Wei Sun , Jun Jia , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Ning Liu

Video quality assessment (VQA) has attracted growing attention in recent years. While the great expense of annotating large-scale VQA datasets has become the main obstacle for current deep-learning methods. To surmount the constraint of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Hongbo Liu , Mingda Wu , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Yansong Tang , Chuanchuan Zheng , Xing Wen , Xiu Li

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven video generation has gained significant attention. Consequently, there is a growing need for accurate video quality assessment (VQA) metrics to evaluate the perceptual quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhichao Zhang , Wei Sun , Xinyue Li , Jun Jia , Xiongkuo Min , Zicheng Zhang , Chunyi Li , Zijian Chen , Puyi Wang , Fengyu Sun , Shangling Jui , Guangtao Zhai

Evaluating the perceptual quality of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) images remains a key challenge, particularly in the absence of pixel-aligned ground truth references. Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) methods fail under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Abhijay Ghildyal , Rajesh Sureddi , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Alan Bovik

The rapid growth of user-generated content (UGC) videos has produced an urgent need for effective video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms to monitor video quality and guide optimization and recommendation procedures. However, current VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Huiyu Duan , Qiang Hu , Jiarui Wang , Liu Yang , Zitong Xu , Lu Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Chunlei Cai , Tianxiao Ye , Xiaoyun Zhang , Guangtao Zhai

With recent advances in deep learning, numerous algorithms have been developed to enhance video quality, reduce visual artifacts, and improve perceptual quality. However, little research has been reported on the quality assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Tianhao Peng , Chen Feng , Duolikun Danier , Fan Zhang , Benoit Vallade , Alex Mackin , David Bull

Learning-based video quality assessment (VQA) has advanced rapidly, yet progress is increasingly constrained by a disconnect between model design and dataset curation. Model-centric approaches often iterate on fixed benchmarks, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jian Zou , Xiaoyu Xu , Zhihua Wang , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Kede Ma

The temporal relationships between frames and their influences on video quality assessment (VQA) are still under-studied in existing works. These relationships lead to two important types of effects for video quality. Firstly, some temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Haoning Wu , Chaofeng Chen , Liang Liao , Jingwen Hou , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Blind or no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental, unsolved, and yet challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. It is vital to the streaming and social media industries that impact billions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Kris Kitani

The popularity of streaming videos with live, high-action content has led to an increased interest in High Frame Rate (HFR) videos. In this work we address the problem of frame rate dependent Video Quality Assessment (VQA) when the videos…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Pavan C Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Assessing the visual quality of video game graphics presents unique challenges due to the absence of reference images and the distinct types of distortions, such as aliasing, texture blur, and geometry level of detail (LOD) issues, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kai Zhu , Vignesh Edithal , Le Zhang , Ilia Blank , Imran Junejo

In this work, we propose a no-reference video quality assessment method, aiming to achieve high-generalization capability in cross-content, -resolution and -frame rate quality prediction. In particular, we evaluate the quality of a video by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Guo Li , Hongfei Fan , Shiqi Wang

Current deep video quality assessment (VQA) methods are usually with high computational costs when evaluating high-resolution videos. This cost hinders them from learning better video-quality-related representations via end-to-end training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Haoning Wu , Chaofeng Chen , Jingwen Hou , Liang Liao , Annan Wang , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

To address the real-time analysis requirements of video streaming applications, we propose an innovative inter-relation-aware video complexity analyzer (IVCA) to enhance the existing video complexity analyzer (VCA). The IVCA overcomes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Junqi Liao , Yao Li , Zhuoyuan Li , Li Li , Dong Liu

In recent years, deep learning has achieved promising success for multimedia quality assessment, especially for image quality assessment (IQA). However, since there exist more complex temporal characteristics in videos, very little work has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

With the rapid development of multimedia processing and deep learning technologies, especially in the field of video understanding, video quality assessment (VQA) has achieved significant progress. Although researchers have moved from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jiebin Yan , Lei Wu , Yuming Fang , Xuelin Liu , Xue Xia , Weide Liu

With the explosive increase of User Generated Content (UGC), UGC video quality assessment (VQA) becomes more and more important for improving users' Quality of Experience (QoE). However, most existing UGC VQA studies only focus on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Yuqin Cao , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Sun , Xiaoping Zhang , Guangtao Zhai

We present a no reference (NR) quality assessment algorithm for assessing the perceptual quality of natural stereoscopic 3D (S3D) videos. This work is inspired by our finding that the joint statistics of the subband coefficients of motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Appina Balasubramanyam , Jalli Akshith , Battula Shanmukh Srinivas , Channappayya S Sumohana