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Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to assess the recognition utility of face samples and is essential for reliable face recognition (FR) systems. Existing approaches require computationally expensive procedures such as multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guray Ozgur , Tahar Chettaoui , Eduarda Caldeira , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Andrea Atzori , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Objective assessment of image quality is fundamentally important in many image processing tasks. In this work, we focus on learning blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models which predict the quality of a digital image with no access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Kede Ma , Wentao Liu , Tongliang Liu , Zhou Wang , Dacheng Tao

Optical microscopy is one of the most widely used techniques in research studies for life sciences and biomedicine. These applications require reliable experimental pipelines to extract valuable knowledge from the measured samples and must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Elena Corbetta , Thomas Bocklitz

A long-held challenge in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) learning from human subjective perception is the lack of objective generalization to unseen natural distortions. To address this, we integrate a novel Depth-Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vaishnav Ramesh , Junliang Liu , Haining Wang , Md Jahidul Islam

Deep learning-based methods have significantly influenced the blind image quality assessment (BIQA) field, however, these methods often require training using large amounts of human rating data. In contrast, traditional knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhangkai Ni , Yue Liu , Keyan Ding , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Shiqi Wang

Textual reasoning has recently been widely adopted in Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA). However, it remains unclear how textual information contributes to quality prediction and to what extent text can represent the score-related image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yuan Li , Shin'ya Nishida

Retinal image quality assessment (RIQA) is essential for controlling the quality of retinal imaging and guaranteeing the reliability of diagnoses by ophthalmologists or automated analysis systems. Existing RIQA methods focus on the RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Huazhu Fu , Boyang Wang , Jianbing Shen , Shanshan Cui , Yanwu Xu , Jiang Liu , Ling Shao

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models generally operate by measuring the visual differences between a degraded image and its reference. However, existing FR-IQA models including both the classical ones (eg, PSNR and SSIM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kang Xiao , Xu Wang , Yulin He , Baoliang Chen , Xuelin Shen

An accurate computational model for image quality assessment (IQA) benefits many vision applications, such as image filtering, image processing, and image generation. Although the study of face images is an important subfield in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Shaolin Su , Hanhe Lin , Vlad Hosu , Oliver Wiedemann , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , Hantao Liu , Yanning Zhang , Dietmar Saupe

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

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

For full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) using deep-learning approaches, the perceptual similarity score between a distorted image and a reference image is typically computed as a distance measure between features extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision that has witnessed remarkable progress with deep neural networks. Inspired by the characteristics of the human visual system, existing methods typically use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chaofeng Chen , Jiadi Mo , Jingwen Hou , Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Blind Face Restoration (BFR) addresses the challenge of reconstructing degraded low-quality (LQ) facial images into high-quality (HQ) outputs. Conventional approaches predominantly rely on learning feature representations from ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Peng Hu , Chunming He , Lei Xu , Jingduo Tian , Sina Farsiu , Yulun Zhang , Pei Liu , Xiu Li

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an important element of a broad spectrum of applications ranging from automatic video streaming to display technology. Furthermore, the measurement of image quality requires a balanced investigation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Domonkos Varga

We propose a novel certified defense method for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models based on randomized smoothing with noise applied in the feature space rather than the input space. Unlike prior approaches that inject Gaussian noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

Nowadays, most existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models 1) are developed for synthetically-distorted images and often generalize poorly to authentic ones; 2) heavily rely on human ratings, which are prohibitively…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhihua Wang , Zhi-Ri Tang , Jianguo Zhang , Yuming Fang

Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithm aims to quantify the human perception of image quality. Unfortunately, there is a performance drop when assessing the distortion images generated by generative adversarial network (GAN) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Shuwei Shi , Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Jiahao Wang , Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang

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

The enormous space and diversity of natural images is usually represented by a few small-scale human-rated image quality assessment (IQA) datasets. This casts great challenges to deep neural network (DNN) based blind IQA (BIQA), which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Shahrukh Athar , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang