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As multimedia services such as video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring high perceptual visual quality becomes a priority to maintain user satisfaction and competitiveness.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wei Zhou , Hadi Amirpour , Christian Timmerer , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet , Alan C. Bovik

No-reference (NR) perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) is a complex, unsolved, and important problem to social and streaming media applications. Efficient and accurate video quality predictors are needed to monitor and guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Zhenqiang Ying , Maniratnam Mandal , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Alan Bovik

Video quality assessment (VQA) is a fundamental computer vision task that aims to predict the perceptual quality of a given video in alignment with human judgments. Existing performant VQA models trained with direct score supervision suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shuo Xing , Soumik Dey , Mingyang Wu , Ashirbad Mishra , Naveen Ravipati , Binbin Li , Hansi Wu , Zhengzhong Tu

Blind visual quality assessment (BVQA) on 360{\textdegree} video plays a key role in optimizing immersive multimedia systems. When assessing the quality of 360{\textdegree} video, human tends to perceive its quality degradation from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Li Yang , Mai Xu , Shengxi Li , Yichen Guo , Zulin Wang

With the rapid advancement of video generation models such as Sora, video quality assessment (VQA) is becoming increasingly crucial for selecting high-quality videos from large-scale datasets used in pre-training. Traditional VQA methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yanyun Pu , Kehan Li , Zeyi Huang , Zhijie Zhong , Kaixiang Yang

Over the past decade, the online video industry has greatly expanded the volume of visual data that is streamed and shared over the Internet. Moreover, because of the increasing ease of video capture, many millions of consumers create and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Xiangxu Yu , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Christos G. Bampis , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Video Quality Assessment (VQA) aims to evaluate video quality based on perceptual distortions and human preferences. Despite the promising performance of existing methods using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Jiet Vong , Yi-Tsung Lee , Sy-Yen Kuo , Qiang Gao , Sizhuo Ma , Jian Wang

Despite rapid advancements in video generation models, aligning their outputs with complex user intent remains challenging. Existing test-time optimization methods are typically either computationally expensive or require white-box access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yiwen Song , Tomas Pfister , Yale Song

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aim to simulate human subjective perception of image visual quality and aesthetic appeal. Despite distinct learning objectives, they have underlying interconnectedness due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hantao Zhou , Longxiang Tang , Rui Yang , Guanyi Qin , Yan Zhang , Yutao Li , Xiu Li , Runze Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Video quality assessment (VQA) seeks to predict the perceptual quality of a video in alignment with human visual perception, serving as a fundamental tool for quantifying quality degradation across video processing workflows. The dominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Linhan Cao , Wei Sun , Xiangyang Zhu , Kaiwei Zhang , Jun Jia , Yicong Peng , Dandan Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

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

Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is evolving beyond single-number mean opinion score toward richer, multi-faceted evaluations of video content. In this paper, we present a large-scale multi-dimensional VQA dataset UltraVQA that encompasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Boda Lin , Yongjie Zhu , Wenyu Qin , Meng Wang , Pengfei Wan

The design of image and video quality assessment (QA) algorithms is extremely important to benchmark and calibrate user experience in modern visual systems. A major drawback of the state-of-the-art QA methods is their limited ability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Shankhanil Mitra , Diptanu De , Shika Rao , Rajiv Soundararajan

Video quality assessment (VQA) is a crucial task in the development of video compression standards, as it directly impacts the viewer experience. This paper presents the results of the Compressed Video Quality Assessment challenge, held in…

The real world is dynamic, yet most image fusion methods process static frames independently, ignoring temporal correlations in videos and leading to flickering and temporal inconsistency. To address this, we propose Unified Video Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Bingxin Ke , Yukun Cui , Lilun Deng , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Konrad Schindler

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based video quality assessment (VQA) framework to evaluate the quality of the compressed user's generated content (UGC) videos. The proposed VQA framework consists of three modules, the feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Wei Sun , Tao Wang , Xiongkuo Min , Fuwang Yi , Guangtao Zhai

Recent years have witnessed an exponential increase in the demand for face video compression, and the success of artificial intelligence has expanded the boundaries beyond traditional hybrid video coding. Generative coding approaches have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Yixuan Li , Bolin Chen , Baoliang Chen , Meng Wang , Shiqi Wang , Weisi Lin

Perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) is an integral component of many streaming and video sharing platforms. Here we consider the problem of learning perceptually relevant video quality representations in a self-supervised manner.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Video quality assessment (VQA) aims to simulate the human perception of video quality, which is influenced by factors ranging from low-level color and texture details to high-level semantic content. To effectively model these complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Kai Zhao , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Xing Wen

Video Quality Assessment (VQA), which aims to predict the perceptual quality of a video, has attracted raising attention with the rapid development of streaming media technology, such as Facebook, TikTok, Kwai, and so on. Compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Kun Yuan , Zishang Kong , Chuanchuan Zheng , Ming Sun , Xing Wen