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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 Question Answering (VideoQA) is a challenging task that requires understanding complex visual and temporal relationships within videos to answer questions accurately. In this work, we introduce \textbf{ReasVQA} (Reasoning-enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jianxin Liang , Xiaojun Meng , Huishuai Zhang , Yueqian Wang , Jiansheng Wei , Dongyan Zhao

In recent years, reinforcement learning has been successful in solving video games from Atari to Star Craft II. However, the end-to-end model-free reinforcement learning (RL) is not sample efficient and requires a significant amount of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Yunqi Zhao , Igor Borovikov , Jason Rupert , Caedmon Somers , Ahmad Beirami

In this paper, we propose a novel parameter-efficient adaptation method for No- Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) using visual prompts optimized in pixel-space. Unlike full fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yahya Benmahane , Mohammed El Hassouni

Vision-language large models have achieved remarkable success in various multi-modal tasks, yet applying them to video understanding remains challenging due to the inherent complexity and computational demands of video data. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kai Han , Jianyuan Guo , Yehui Tang , Wei He , Enhua Wu , Yunhe Wang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires models to reason over multimodal information, combining visual and textual data. With the development of continual learning, significant progress has been made in retaining knowledge and adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhifei Li , Yiran Wang , Chenyi Xiong , Yujing Xia , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Bing Yang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown strong potential for enhancing reasoning in multimodal large language models, yet existing video reasoning methods often rely on coarse sequence-level rewards or single-factor token selection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ziyue Wang , Sheng Jin , Zhongrong Zuo , Jiawei Wu , Han Qiu , Qi She , Hao Zhang , Xudong Jiang

Accurate and efficient Video Quality Assessment (VQA) has long been a key research challenge. Current mainstream VQA methods typically improve performance by pretraining on large-scale classification datasets (e.g., ImageNet, Kinetics-400),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yachun Mi , Yu Li , Yanting Li , Chen Hui , Tong Zhang , Zhixuan Li , Chenyue Song , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Shaohui Liu

This paper presents our system for the Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Challenge in the 4th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. We explore the research problems of this challenge from three aspects: 1) For obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Tenggan Zhang , Chuanhe Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Yuchen Liu , Liyu Meng , Lei Sun , Wenqiang Jiang , Fengyuan Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of tasks. However, their performance often remains suboptimal when directly applied to specific downstream scenarios without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hao Dong , Lijun Sheng , Jian Liang , Ran He , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

With video games now generating the highest revenues in the entertainment industry, optimizing game development workflows has become essential for the sector's sustained growth. Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Mohammad Reza Taesiri , Abhijay Ghildyal , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Cor-Paul Bezemer

In existing visual representation learning tasks, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are often trained on images annotated with single tags, such as ImageNet. However, a single tag cannot describe all important contents of one image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Baoyuan Wu , Weidong Chen , Yanbo Fan , Yong Zhang , Jinlong Hou , Jie Liu , Tong Zhang

This work introduces NeuroQuant, a novel post-training quantization (PTQ) approach tailored to non-generalized Implicit Neural Representations for variable-rate Video Coding (INR-VC). Unlike existing methods that require extensive weight…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Junqi Shi , Zhujia Chen , Hanfei Li , Qi Zhao , Ming Lu , Tong Chen , Zhan Ma

We aim at advancing blind image quality assessment (BIQA), which predicts the human perception of image quality without any reference information. We develop a general and automated multitask learning scheme for BIQA to exploit auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Weixia Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Ying Wei , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Different from what happens for most types of software systems, testing video games has largely remained a manual activity performed by human testers. This is mostly due to the continuous and intelligent user interaction video games…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Rosalia Tufano , Simone Scalabrino , Luca Pascarella , Emad Aghajani , Rocco Oliveto , Gabriele Bavota

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to estimate the perceptual image quality in accordance with subjective evaluations, it is a complex and unsolved problem due to the absence of the pristine reference image. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Saba Dadsetan , Kris M. Kitani

No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment (NR-PCQA) aims to objectively assess the human perceptual quality of point clouds without relying on pristine-quality point clouds for reference. It is becoming increasingly significant with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ziyu Shan , Yujie Zhang , Yipeng Liu , Yiling Xu

Developing reasoning capabilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remains challenging. Motivated by literature suggesting that gameplay promotes transferable reasoning skills, we propose a novel post-training method, Visual Game…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yunfei Xie , Yinsong Ma , Shiyi Lan , Alan Yuille , Junfei Xiao , Chen Wei

The rapid advancement of generative models has led to a growing volume of AI-generated videos, making the automatic quality assessment of such videos increasingly important. Existing AI-generated content video quality assessment (AIGC-VQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Minghao Zou , Gen Liu , Guanghui Yue , Baoquan Zhao , Zhihua Wang , Paul L. Rosin , Hantao Liu , Wei Zhou

Data efficiency is a key challenge for deep reinforcement learning. We address this problem by using unlabeled data to pretrain an encoder which is then finetuned on a small amount of task-specific data. To encourage learning…