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Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) benchmarks are an established standard for measuring Vision Language Model (VLM) performance in driving tasks. However, we observe the known phenomenon that synthetically generated MCQAs are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Sutej Kulgod , Sean Ye , Sanchit Tanwar , Christoffer Heckman

Perceptual image restoration seeks for high-fidelity images that most likely degrade to given images. For better visual quality, previous work proposed to search for solutions within the natural image manifold, by exploiting the latent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Chaoyi Han , Yiping Duan , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu

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

A main goal in developing video-compression algorithms is to enhance human-perceived visual quality while maintaining file size. But modern video-analysis efforts such as detection and recognition, which are integral to video surveillance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Mikhail Dremin , Konstantin Kozhemyakov , Ivan Molodetskikh , Malakhov Kirill , Artur Sagitov , Dmitriy Vatolin

Low-level visual perception underpins reliable remote sensing (RS) image analysis, yet current image quality assessment (IQA) methods output uninterpretable scalar scores rather than characterizing physics-driven RS degradations, deviating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chen Zhong , Xiao An , Jiaxing Sun , Zihan Gui , Guangyi Yang , Wei He

The assessment of the perceptual quality of digital images is becoming increasingly important as a result of the widespread use of digital multimedia devices. Smartphones and high-speed internet are just two examples of technologies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Nisar Ahmed , Shahzad Asif

Understanding semantic information is an essential step in knowing what is being learned in both full-reference (FR) and no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) methods. However, especially for many severely distorted images, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Pengxiang Xiao , Shuai He , Limin Liu , Anlong Ming

Perceptual quality assessment of the videos acquired in the wilds is of vital importance for quality assurance of video services. The inaccessibility of reference videos with pristine quality and the complexity of authentic distortions pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Bowen Li , Weixia Zhang , Meng Tian , Guangtao Zhai , Xianpei Wang

The 4K content can deliver a more immersive visual experience to consumers due to the huge improvement of spatial resolution. However, existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods are not suitable for the original and upscaled 4K…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Wei Lu , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wenhan Zhu , Quan Zhou , Jun He , Qiyuan Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Tao Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate image quality in line with human perception, without reference benchmarks. Currently, deep learning BIQA methods typically depend on using features from high-level tasks for transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Xiawu Zheng , Yutao Liu , ShengChuan Zhang , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to develop methods that estimate the quality scores of images in the absence of a reference image. In this paper, we approach BIQA from a distortion identification perspective, where our primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sepehr Kazemi Ranjbar , Emad Fatemizadeh

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 goal in a blind image quality assessment (BIQA) model is to simulate the process of evaluating images by human eyes and accurately assess the quality of the image. Although many approaches effectively identify degradation, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Guangyi Yang , Yang Zhan. , Yuxuan Wang

Image restoration endeavors to reconstruct a high-quality, detail-rich image from a degraded counterpart, which is a pivotal process in photography and various computer vision systems. In real-world scenarios, different types of degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yuhong He , Long Peng , Qiaosi Yi , Chen Wu , Lu Wang

What is the current state-of-the-art for image restoration and enhancement applied to degraded images acquired under less than ideal circumstances? Can the application of such algorithms as a pre-processing step to improve image…

The study of video prediction models is believed to be a fundamental approach to representation learning for videos. While a plethora of generative models for predicting the future frame pixel values given the past few frames exist, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Nagabhushan Somraj , Manoj Surya Kashi , S. P. Arun , Rajiv Soundararajan

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment for distorted images has always been a challenging problem due to image content variance and distortion diversity. Previous IQA models mostly encode explicit single-quality features of synthetic images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Jingtong Yue , Xin Lin , Zijiu Yang , Chao Ren

With the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence Generated Image (AGI) technology, the accurate assessment of their quality has become an increasingly vital requirement. Prevailing methods typically rely on cross-modal models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Qiang Li , Qingsen Yan , Haojian Huang , Peng Wu , Haokui Zhang , Yanning Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xudong Li , Zihao Huang , Yan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Xiawu Zheng , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Motion blur, out of focus, insufficient spatial resolution, lossy compression and many other factors can all cause an image to have poor quality. However, image quality is a largely ignored issue in traditional pattern recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Fei Yang , Qian Zhang , Miaohui Wang , Guoping Qiu