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Among the various image quality assessment (IQA) tasks, blind IQA (BIQA) is particularly challenging due to the absence of knowledge about the reference image and distortion type. Features based on natural scene statistics (NSS) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wufeng Xue , Xuanqin Mou , Lei Zhang

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models aim to predict perceptual image quality in alignment with human judgments. No-Reference (NR) IQA remains particularly challenging due to the absence of a reference image. While deep learning has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Rajesh Sureddi , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

In practical media distribution systems, visual content usually undergoes multiple stages of quality degradation along the delivery chain, but the pristine source content is rarely available at most quality monitoring points along the chain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Shahrukh Athar , Zhou Wang

With technology for digital photography and high resolution displays rapidly evolving and gaining popularity, there is a growing demand for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models for high resolution images. Unfortunately, the publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Huang Huang , Qiang Wan , Jari Korhonen

Recent state-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have achieved impressive performance, yet unconstrained face recognition still represents an open problem. Face image quality assessment (FIQA) approaches aim to estimate the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Contemporary face recognition (FR) models achieve near-ideal recognition performance in constrained settings, yet do not fully translate the performance to unconstrained (realworld) scenarios. To help improve the performance and stability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Žiga Babnik , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images in accordance with human subjective perception. Unfortunately, existing NR-IQA methods are far from meeting the needs of predicting accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Sidi Yang , Tianhe Wu , Shuwei Shi , Shanshan Lao , Yuan Gong , Mingdeng Cao , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang

Although recent efforts in image quality assessment (IQA) have achieved promising performance, there still exists a considerable gap compared to the human visual system (HVS). One significant disparity lies in humans' seamless transition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yi Ke Yun , Weisi Lin

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

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to develop methods that estimate the quality scores of images in the absence of a reference image. In this paper, we approach BIQA from a distortion identification perspective, where our primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sepehr Kazemi Ranjbar , Emad Fatemizadeh

In this paper, we propose a novel virtual reality image quality assessment (VR IQA) with adversarial learning for omnidirectional images. To take into account the characteristics of the omnidirectional image, we devise deep networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Heoun-taek Lim , Hak Gu Kim , Yong Man Ro

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) plays a critical role in face recognition and verification systems, especially in uncontrolled, real-world environments. Although several methods have been proposed, general-purpose no-reference image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 MohammadAli Hamidi , Hadi Amirpour , Luigi Atzori , Christian Timmerer

Objective image quality assessment (IQA) is imperative in the current multimedia-intensive world, in order to assess the visual quality of an image at close to a human level of ability. Many~parameters such as color intensity, structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Md Abu Layek , Sanjida Afroz , TaeChoong Chung , Eui-Nam Huh

Blind Omnidirectional Image Quality Assessment (BOIQA) aims to objectively assess the human perceptual quality of omnidirectional images (ODIs) without relying on pristine-quality image information. It is becoming more significant with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tianhe Wu , Shuwei Shi , Haoming Cai , Mingdeng Cao , Jing Xiao , Yinqiang Zheng , Yujiu Yang

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

With the advent of image super-resolution (SR) algorithms, how to evaluate the quality of generated SR images has become an urgent task. Although full-reference methods perform well in SR image quality assessment (SR-IQA), their reliance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Xinying Lin , Xuyang Liu , Hong Yang , Xiaohai He , Honggang Chen

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to simulate the process of perceiving image quality aligned with subjective human perception. However, existing NR-IQA methods either focus on global representations that leads to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Haiqi Zhu , Feng Jiang , Yachun Mi , Wei Zhang , Shaohui Liu

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to predict image quality scores consistent with human perception without relying on pristine reference images, serving as a crucial component in various visual tasks. Ensuring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Chenxi Yang , Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to develop methods to measure image quality in alignment with human perception without the need for a high-quality reference image. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo