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In this paper, we propose a method that learns a general representation of periodic signals from unlabeled facial videos by capturing subtle changes in skin tone over time. The proposed framework employs the video masked autoencoder to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Jiho Choi , Sang Jun Lee

With a surge in online medical advising remote monitoring of patient vitals is required. This can be facilitated with the Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) techniques that compute vital signs from facial videos. It involves processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Amtul Haq Ayesha , Donghao Qiao , Farhana Zulkernine

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in interpreting remote sensing (RS) images through language-guided semantic. However, the effectiveness of these VLMs critically depends on high-quality image-text training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Dilxat Muhtar , Enzhuo Zhang , Zhenshi Li , Feng Gu , Yanglangxing He , Pengfeng Xiao , Xueliang Zhang

The study of video prediction models is believed to be a fundamental approach to representation learning for videos. While a plethora of generative models for predicting the future frame pixel values given the past few frames exist, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Nagabhushan Somraj , Manoj Surya Kashi , S. P. Arun , Rajiv Soundararajan

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven video generation has gained significant attention. Consequently, there is a growing need for accurate video quality assessment (VQA) metrics to evaluate the perceptual quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhichao Zhang , Wei Sun , Xinyue Li , Jun Jia , Xiongkuo Min , Zicheng Zhang , Chunyi Li , Zijian Chen , Puyi Wang , Fengyu Sun , Shangling Jui , Guangtao Zhai

Heart rate is a physiological signal that provides information about an individual's health and affective state. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows the estimation of this signal from video recordings of a person's face. Classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bhargav Acharya , William Saakyan , Barbara Hammer , Hanna Drimalla

Many objective video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms include a key step of temporal pooling of frame-level quality scores. However, less attention has been paid to studying the relative efficiencies of different pooling methods on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Zhengzhong Tu , Chia-Ju Chen , Li-Heng Chen , Neil Birkbeck , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Vital sign measurement using cameras presents opportunities for comfortable, ubiquitous health monitoring. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), a foundational technology, enables cardiac measurement through minute changes in light reflected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kegang Wang , Jiankai Tang , Yuntao Wang , Xin Liu , Yuxuan Fan , Jiatong Ji , Yuanchun Shi , Daniel McDuff

The attention mechanism is blooming in computer vision nowadays. However, its application to video quality assessment (VQA) has not been reported. Evaluating the quality of in-the-wild videos is challenging due to the unknown of pristine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Fengchuang Xing , Yuan-Gen Wang , Hanpin Wang , Leida Li , Guopu Zhu

Recent studies demonstrated that the average heart rate (HR) can be measured from facial videos based on non-contact remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). However for many medical applications (e.g., atrial fibrillation (AF) detection)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is the leading non-invasive technique for monitoring biosignals and cardiovascular health, with widespread adoption in both clinical settings and consumer wearable devices. While machine learning models trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Arvind Pillai , Dimitris Spathis , Fahim Kawsar , Mohammad Malekzadeh

As super-resolution (SR) techniques advance, we observe a growing distrust of evaluation metrics in recent SR research. An inconsistency often emerges between certain evaluation criteria and human perceptual preference. Although current SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shaolin Su , Josep M. Rocafort , Danna Xue , David Serrano-Lozano , Lei Sun , Javier Vazquez-Corral

The proliferation of videos collected during in-the-wild natural settings has pushed the development of effective Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methodologies. Contemporary supervised opinion-driven VQA strategies predominantly hinge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Annan Wang , Chaofeng Chen , Jingwen Hou , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Perception-based image analysis technologies can be used to help visually impaired people take better quality pictures by providing automated guidance, thereby empowering them to interact more confidently on social media. The photographs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Maniratnam Mandal , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Danna Gurari , Alan C. Bovik

This paper presents a novel approach for reduced-reference video quality assessment (VQA), developed as part of the recent VQA Grand Challenge. Our method leverages low-level complexity and structural information from reference and test…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Amritha Premkumar , Prajit T Rajendran , Vignesh V Menon

Vision language models (VLMs) like CLIP show stellar zero-shot capability on classification benchmarks. However, selecting the VLM with the highest performance on the unlabeled downstream task is non-trivial. Existing VLM selection methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuhe Ding , Bo Jiang , Aihua Zheng , Qin Xu , Jian Liang

Video quality significantly affects video classification. We found this problem when we classified Mild Cognitive Impairment well from clear videos, but worse from blurred ones. From then, we realized that referring to Video Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jian Sun , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Investigating how people perceive virtual reality (VR) videos in the wild (i.e., those captured by everyday users) is a crucial and challenging task in VR-related applications due to complex authentic distortions localized in space and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Wen Wen , Mu Li , Yiru Yao , Xiangjie Sui , Yabin Zhang , Long Lan , Yuming Fang , Kede Ma

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a promising technology that consists of contactless measuring of cardiac activity from facial videos. Most recent approaches utilize convolutional networks with limited temporal modeling capability or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Marko Savic , Guoying Zhao

Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma