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Existing deep network-based full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) models typically work by performing pairwise comparisons of deep features from the reference and distorted images. In this paper, we approach this problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Zhang , Jielei Chu , Tian Zhang , Lin Ma , Fengmao Lv , Weide Liu , Tianrui Li , Yuming Fang

Full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) models assume a high quality "pristine" image as a reference against which to measure perceptual image quality. In many applications, however, the assumption that the reference image is of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-12 Xiangxu Yu , Christos G. Bampis , Praful Gupta , Alan C. Bovik

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

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

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate image quality in line with human perception, without reference benchmarks. Currently, deep learning BIQA methods typically depend on using features from high-level tasks for transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Runze Hu , Yan Zhang , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Xiawu Zheng , Yutao Liu , ShengChuan Zhang , Pingyang Dai , Rongrong Ji

Existing full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods achieve high-precision evaluation by analysing feature differences between reference and distorted images. However, their performance is constrained by the quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xuting Lan , Mingliang Zhou , Xuekai Wei , Jielu Yan , Yueting Huang , Huayan Pu , Jun Luo , Weijia Jia

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) has received increasing attention in the IQA community since reference image is not always available. Real-world images generally suffer from various types of distortion. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Fu-Zhao Ou , Yuan-Gen Wang , Jin Li , Guopu Zhu , Sam Kwong

The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments. Perceptual datasets gathered for this purpose have provided useful benchmarks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli

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

Contemporary no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models can effectively quantify perceived image quality, often achieving strong correlations with human perceptual scores on standard IQA benchmarks. Yet, limited efforts have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Weixia Zhang , Dingquan Li , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Image quality assessment is a fundamental problem in the field of image processing, and due to the lack of reference images in most practical scenarios, no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), has gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jinsong Shi , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

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

Blind or no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental, unsolved, and yet challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. It is vital to the streaming and social media industries that impact billions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Kris Kitani

AI-based image enhancement techniques have been widely adopted in various visual applications, significantly improving the perceptual quality of user-generated content (UGC). However, the lack of specialized quality assessment models has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Zicheng Zhang , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Jun Chen , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

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

Super-resolution (SR), a classical inverse problem in computer vision, is inherently ill-posed, inducing a distribution of plausible solutions for every input. However, the desired result is not simply the expectation of this distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Fengjia Zhang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Afsaneh Fazly , Alex Levinshtein

In this paper, we propose a No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NRIQA) guided cut-off point selection (CPS) strategy to enhance the performance of a fine-grained classification system. Scores given by existing NRIQA methods on the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Joseph Smith , Zheming Zuo , Jonathan Stonehouse , Boguslaw Obara

The optimization objective of regression-based blind image quality assessment (IQA) models is to minimize the mean prediction error across the training dataset, which can lead to biased parameter estimation due to potential training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaoqi Wang , Jian Xiong , Hao Gao , Weisi Lin

Embodied AI has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is still mainly deployed in laboratories, with various distortions in the Real-world limiting its application. Traditionally, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods are applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Chunyi Li , Jiaohao Xiao , Jianbo Zhang , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Yuan Tian , Xiangyang Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Zhengxue Cheng , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Despite the impressive performance of large multimodal models (LMMs) in high-level visual tasks, their capacity for image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited. One main reason is that LMMs are primarily trained for high-level tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Baoliang Chen , Siyi Pan , Dongxu Wu , Liang Xie , Xiangjie Sui , Lingyu Zhu , Hanwei Zhu