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Deep Learning has led to a dramatic leap in Super-Resolution (SR) performance in the past few years. However, being supervised, these SR methods are restricted to specific training data, where the acquisition of the low-resolution (LR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Assaf Shocher , Nadav Cohen , Michal Irani

In this paper, we present a novel method of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), which is to predict the perceptual quality score of a given image without using any reference image. The proposed method harnesses three functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Diqi Chen , Yizhou Wang , Tianfu Wu , Wen Gao

In most studies on learning-based image super-resolution (SR), the paired training dataset is created by downscaling high-resolution (HR) images with a predetermined operation (e.g., bicubic). However, these methods fail to super-resolve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Shunta Maeda

With the emergence of image super-resolution (SR) algorithm, how to blindly evaluate the quality of super-resolution images has become an urgent task. However, existing blind SR image quality assessment (IQA) metrics merely focus on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jun Fu

The no-reference image quality assessment is a challenging domain that addresses estimating image quality without the original reference. We introduce an improved mechanism to extract local and non-local information from images via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Mohammed Alsaafin , Musab Alsheikh , Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Usman

Traditional image quality assessment (IQA) methods rely on mean opinion scores (MOS), which are resource-intensive to collect and fail to provide interpretable, localized feedback on specific image distortions. We overcome these limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fadeel Sher Khan , Long N. Le , Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Seok-Jun Lee , Hamid R. Sheikh

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

While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown impressive outcomes with synthetic degradation scenarios such as bicubic downsampling, they frequently struggle to perform well on real-world images that feature complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hyeonjae Kim , Dongjin Kim , Eugene Jin , Tae Hyun Kim

Most image super-resolution (SR) methods are developed on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs that are constructed by a predetermined operation, e.g., bicubic downsampling. As existing methods typically learn…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Sanghyun Son , Jaeha Kim , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Husan Yang , Kyoung Mu Lee

Conventional supervised super-resolution (SR) approaches are trained with massive external SR datasets but fail to exploit desirable properties of the given test image. On the other hand, self-supervised SR approaches utilize the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Seobin Park , Jinsu Yoo , Donghyeon Cho , Jiwon Kim , Tae Hyun Kim

The state of the art in video super-resolution (SR) are techniques based on deep learning, but they perform poorly on real-world videos (see Figure 1). The reason is that training image-pairs are commonly created by downscaling a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Noam Elron , Alex Itskovich , Shahar S. Yuval , Noam Levy

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) remains a challenging task due to the diversity of distortions and the lack of large annotated datasets. Many studies have attempted to tackle these challenges by developing more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved remarkable success by leveraging large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models as priors. However, these methods still face two challenges: the requirement for dozens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aiping Zhang , Zongsheng Yue , Renjing Pei , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

Cross-modal super-resolution (SR) on real-world misaligned data is challenging, as only unlabeled low-resolution (LR) source and high-resolution (HR) guide images with complex spatial misalignment are available. Previous methods either rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaoyu Dong , Jiahuan Li , Ziteng Cui , Naoto Yokoya

Existing diffusion-based super-resolution approaches often exhibit semantic ambiguities due to inaccuracies and incompleteness in their text conditioning, coupled with the inherent tendency for cross-attention to divert towards irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chen Chen , Majid Abdolshah , Violetta Shevchenko , Hongdong Li , Chang Xu , Pulak Purkait

This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method based on image entropy. The image features are extracted from two domains. In the spatial domain, the mutual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xiaoqiao Chen , Qingyi Zhang , Manhui Lin , Guangyi Yang , Chu He

Image super-resolution (SR) is a field in computer vision that focuses on reconstructing high-resolution images from the respective low-resolution image. However, super-resolution is a well-known ill-posed problem as most methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Athiya Deviyani , Efe Sinan Hoplamaz , Alan Savio Paul

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is a challenging ill-posed problem that aims to up-sample a given low-resolution (LR) image to a high-resolution (HR) counterpart. Due to the difficulty in obtaining real LR-HR training pairs, recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Reyhaneh Neshatavar , Mohsen Yavartanoo , Sanghyun Son , Kyoung Mu Lee

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a critical task in a wide range of applications but remains challenging due to the subjective nature of human perception and the complexity of real-world image distortions. This study proposes MetaQAP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nisar Ahmed , Gulshan Saleem , Nazik Alturki , Nada Alasbali