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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) constitutes a fundamental task within the field of computer vision, yet it remains an unresolved challenge, owing to the intricate distortion conditions, diverse image contents, and limited availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Kangmin Xu , Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Chaofeng Chen , Haoning Wu , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a core task in computer vision. Multimodal methods based on vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities in IQA tasks. To address the issues of excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yongkang Hou , Jiarun Song

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of images based on human subjective perception. Existing methods generally combine multiscale features to achieve high performance, but most rely on straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Shaohui Liu , Hong Huang , Feng Jiang

Constructing accurate model-agnostic explanations for opaque machine learning models remains a challenging task. Classification models for high-dimensional data, like images, are often inherently complex. To reduce this complexity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Georgios Vlassopoulos , Tim van Erven , Henry Brighton , Vlado Menkovski

Deep learning became the game changer for image retrieval soon after it was introduced. It promotes the feature extraction (by representation learning) as the core of image retrieval, with the relevance/matching evaluation being degenerated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Xulu Zhang , Zhenqun Yang , Hao Tian , Qing Li , Xiaoyong Wei

The rapid advancement of AI-generated image (AIGI) models presents new challenges for evaluating image quality, particularly across three aspects: perceptual quality, prompt correspondence, and authenticity. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chuan Cui , Kejiang Chen , Zhihua Wei , Wen Shen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

With the development of rendering techniques, computer graphics generated images (CGIs) have been widely used in practical application scenarios such as architecture design, video games, simulators, movies, etc. Different from natural scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tao Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

An important scenario for image quality assessment (IQA) is to evaluate image restoration (IR) algorithms. The state-of-the-art approaches adopt a full-reference paradigm that compares restored images with their corresponding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Heliang Zheng , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jiebo Luo

Ensuring trustworthiness in open-world visual recognition requires models that are interpretable, fair, and robust to distribution shifts. Yet modern vision systems are increasingly deployed as proprietary black-box APIs, exposing only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Simone Carnemolla , Chiara Russo , Simone Palazzo , Quentin Bouniot , Daniela Giordano , Zeynep Akata , Matteo Pennisi , Concetto Spampinato

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Qingyi Pan , Ning Guo , Letu Qingge , Jingyi Zhang , Pei Yang

Despite the impressive success of text-to-image (TTI) generation models, existing studies overlook the issue of whether these models accurately convey factual information. In this paper, we focus on the problem of image hallucination, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Youngsun Lim , Hojun Choi , Hyunjung Shim

Video quality assessment (VQA) aims to objectively quantify perceptual quality degradation in alignment with human visual perception. Despite recent advances, existing VQA models still suffer from two critical limitations: \textit{poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Linhan Cao , Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Jun Jia , Kaiwei Zhang , Dandan Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

In recent years, visual question answering (VQA) has become topical. The premise of VQA's significance as a benchmark in AI, is that both the image and textual question need to be well understood and mutually grounded in order to infer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

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

Assessing the quality of artificial intelligence-generated images (AIGIs) plays a crucial role in their application in real-world scenarios. However, traditional image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms primarily focus on low-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yu Tian , Yixuan Li , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

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) has long been a research hotspot in the field of image processing, especially No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). Due to the powerful feature extraction ability, existing Convolution Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Jie Qin

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task of predicting the answer to a question about the content of an image. Prior works directly evaluate the answering models by simply calculating the accuracy of predicted answers. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kun Li , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Most recent state-of-the-art Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are opaque black boxes that are only trained to fit the answer distribution given the question and visual content. As a result, these systems frequently take shortcuts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jialin Wu , Liyan Chen , Raymond J. Mooney