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Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is the task of predicting the visual quality of an image as perceived by a human observer. Current state-of-the-art techniques are based on deep representations trained in discriminative manner.…

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Recent advances in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) have leveraged Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate descriptive explanations. However, despite their strong visual perception modules, these models often fail to reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuan Li , Zitang Sun , Yen-Ju Chen , Shin'ya Nishida

Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to estimate human perception based image visual quality. Although existing deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown significant effectiveness for tackling the IQA problem, it still needs to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

Visual quality assessment (VQA) is increasingly shifting from scalar score prediction toward interpretable quality understanding -- a paradigm that demands \textit{fine-grained spatiotemporal perception} and \textit{auxiliary contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Linhan Cao , Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Kaiwei Zhang , Jun Jia , Dandan Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Generative models for image restoration, enhancement, and generation have significantly improved the quality of the generated images. Surprisingly, these models produce more pleasant images to the human eye than other methods, yet, they may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Marcos V. Conde , Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) has progressed from scalar quality prediction to more interpretable, human-aligned evaluation paradigms. In this work, we address the emerging challenge of detailed and explainable IQA by proposing iDETEX-a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhaoran Zhao , Xinli Yue , Jianhui Sun , Yuhao Xie , Tao Shao , Liangchao Yao , Fan Xia , Yuetang Deng

Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based image quality assessment (IQA) has been significantly advanced by incorporating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. Recent work has refined image quality reasoning by applying reinforcement learning (RL) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yuxuan Jiang , Yixuan Li , Hanwei Zhu , Siyue Teng , Fan Zhang , David Bull

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

The goal of full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) is to predict the quality of an image as perceived by human observers with using its pristine, reference counterpart. In this study, we explore a novel, combined approach which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Domonkos Varga

Several metrics exist to quantify the similarity between images, but they are inefficient when it comes to measure the similarity of highly distorted images. In this work, we propose to empirically investigate perceptual metrics based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Rémi Kazmierczak , Gianni Franchi , Nacim Belkhir , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

Learning to answer visual questions is a challenging task since the multi-modal inputs are within two feature spaces. Moreover, reasoning in visual question answering requires the model to understand both image and question, and align them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Peixi Xiong , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in jointly understanding text, images, and videos, often evaluated via Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, even state-of-the-art MLLMs struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alberto Compagnoni , Marco Morini , Sara Sarto , Federico Cocchi , Davide Caffagni , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Vision-centric retrieval for VQA requires retrieving images to supply missing visual cues and integrating them into the reasoning process. However, selecting the right images and integrating them effectively into the model's reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhuohong Chen , Zhengxian Wu , Zirui Liao , Shenao Jiang , Hangrui Xu , Yang Chen , Chaokui Su , Xiaoyu Liu , Haoqian Wang

Image quality assessment (IQA) is inherently complex, as it reflects both the quantification and interpretation of perceptual quality rooted in the human visual system. Conventional approaches typically rely on fixed models to output scalar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanwei Zhu , Yu Tian , Keyan Ding , Baoliang Chen , Bolin Chen , Shiqi Wang , Weisi Lin

Visual Question Answering (VQA) focuses on providing answers to natural language questions by utilizing information from images. Although cutting-edge multimodal large language models (MLLMs) such as GPT-4o achieve strong performance on VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhengxuan Zhang , Yin Wu , Yuyu Luo , Nan Tang

In recent years, with the rapid development of powerful multimodal large language models (MLLMs), explainable image quality assessment (IQA) has gradually become popular, aiming at providing quality-related descriptions and answers of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Huiyu Duan , Yucheng Zhu , Qi Jia , Guangtao Zhai

Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) techniques compare a reference and a distorted/test image and predict the perceptual quality of the test image in terms of a scalar value representing an objective score. The evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Ashirbani Saha , Q. M. Jonathan Wu

With the rapid evolution of the Text-to-Image (T2I) model in recent years, their unsatisfactory generation result has become a challenge. However, uniformly refining AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) of different qualities not only limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Chunyi Li , Haoning Wu , Zicheng Zhang , Hongkun Hao , Kaiwei Zhang , Lei Bai , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

The explosion of visual content available online underscores the requirement for an accurate machine assessor to robustly evaluate scores across diverse types of visual contents. While recent studies have demonstrated the exceptional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Haoning Wu , Zicheng Zhang , Weixia Zhang , Chaofeng Chen , Liang Liao , Chunyi Li , Yixuan Gao , Annan Wang , Erli Zhang , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Weisi Lin

Traditional deep neural network (DNN)-based image quality assessment (IQA) models leverage convolutional neural networks (CNN) or Transformer to learn the quality-aware feature representation, achieving commendable performance on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Puyi Wang , Wei Sun , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Yanwei Jiang , Zhichao Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai