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Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly adopted as central reasoning modules for embodied agents. Existing benchmarks evaluate their capabilities under ideal, well-lit conditions, yet robust 24/7 operation demands performance under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yohan Park , Hyunwoo Ha , Wonjun Jo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Super-resolution (SR) applied to real-world low-resolution (LR) images often results in complex, irregular degradations that stem from the inherent complexity of natural scene acquisition. In contrast to SR artifacts arising from synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kian Majlessi , Amir Masoud Soltani , Mohammad Ebrahim Mahdavi , Aurelien Gourrier , Peyman Adibi

Generative models for image restoration, enhancement, and generation have significantly improved the quality of the generated images. Surprisingly, these models produce more pleasant images to the human eye than other methods, yet, they may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Marcos V. Conde , Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

Despite significant progress in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), dataset biases and reliance on subjective labels continue to hinder their generalization performance. We propose HiRQA (Hierarchical Ranking and Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Vaishnav Ramesh , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

As image generation technology advances, AI-based image generation has been applied in various fields and Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has garnered widespread attention. However, the development of AI-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiquan Yuan , Xinyan Cao , Changjin Li , Fanyi Yang , Jinlong Lin , Xixin Cao

Generic Face Image Quality Assessment (GFIQA) evaluates the perceptual quality of facial images, which is crucial in improving image restoration algorithms and selecting high-quality face images for downstream tasks. We present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wei-Ting Chen , Gurunandan Krishnan , Qiang Gao , Sy-Yen Kuo , Sizhuo Ma , Jian Wang

This paper presents a summary of the VQualA 2025 Challenge on Visual Quality Comparison for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), hosted as part of the ICCV 2025 Workshop on Visual Quality Assessment. The challenge aims to evaluate and enhance…

Due to the inevitable presence of quality problems, quality inspection of remote sensing images is indeed an indispensable step between the acquisition and the application of them. However, traditional manual inspection suffers from low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yijiong Yu , Tao Wang , Kang Ran , Chang Li , Hao Wu

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising performance on video quality assessment (VQA) tasks. However, adapting them to new scenarios remains expensive due to large-scale retraining and costly mean opinion score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xinyue Li , Shubo Xu , Zhichao Zhang , Zhaolin Cai , Yitong Chen , Guangtao Zhai

Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is vital for large-scale video retrieval systems, aimed at identifying quality issues to prioritize high-quality videos. In industrial systems, low-quality video characteristics fall into four categories:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Hengzhu Tang , Zefeng Zhang , Zhiping Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Xing Wu , Li Gao , Suqi Cheng , Dawei Yin

Image quality assessment (IQA) represents a pivotal challenge in image-focused technologies, significantly influencing the advancement trajectory of image processing and computer vision. Recently, IQA has witnessed a notable surge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengqian Ma , Zhengyi Shi , Zhiqiang Lu , Shenghao Xie , Fei Chao , Yao Sui

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has grown rapidly in recent years, among which AI-based image generation has gained widespread attention due to its efficient and imaginative image creation ability. However, AI-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiarui Wang , Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Image quality assessment (IQA) in medical imaging can be used to ensure that downstream clinical tasks can be reliably performed. Quantifying the impact of an image on the specific target tasks, also named as task amenability, is needed. A…

Large language models perform well on many medical QA benchmarks, but real clinical reasoning often requires integrating evidence across multiple images rather than interpreting a single view. We introduce MedThinkVQA, an expert-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zonghai Yao , Benlu Wang , Yifan Zhang , Junda Wang , Iris Xia , Zhipeng Tang , Shuo Han , Feiyun Ouyang , Zhichao Yang , Arman Cohan , Hong Yu

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are increasingly deployed as perceptual critics to guide generative models and image restoration. This role demands not only accurate scores but also actionable, localized feedback. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xudong Li , Jiaxi Tan , Ziyin Zhou , Yan Zhong , Zihao Huang , Jingyuan Zheng , Yan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

Free-energy-guided self-repair mechanisms have shown promising results in image quality assessment (IQA), but remain under-explored in video quality assessment (VQA), where temporal dynamics and model constraints pose unique challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zhaoyang Wang , Wen Lu , Jie Li , Lihuo He , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

Human visual perception naturally evaluates image quality across multiple scales, a hierarchical process that existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) algorithms struggle to replicate effectively. This limitation stems from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Runze Hu , Zihao Huang , Xudong Li , Bohan Fu , Yan Zhang , Sicheng Zhao

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

Although many effective models and real-world datasets have been presented for blind image quality assessment (BIQA), recent BIQA models usually tend to fit specific training set. Hence, it is still difficult to accurately and robustly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuan Chen , Zhiliang Ma , Yang Zhao