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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

Recently, increasing interest has been drawn in exploiting deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA). Despite of the notable success achieved, there is a broad consensus that training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Hancheng Zhu , Leida Li , Jinjian Wu , Weisheng Dong , Guangming Shi

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is a fundamental yet challenging task in low-level computer vision community. The difficulty is particularly pronounced for the limited information, for which the corresponding reference for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Kwan-Yee Lin , Guanxiang Wang

This paper uses robust statistics and curvelet transform to learn a general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) model. The new approach, here called M1, competes with the Curvelet Quality Assessment proposed in 2014…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ramon Giostri Campos , Evandro Ottoni Teatini Salles

In this letter, a very simple no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) model for JPEG compressed images is proposed. The proposed metric called median of unique gradients (MUG) is based on the very simple facts of unique gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Hossein Ziaei Nafchi , Atena Shahkolaei , Rachid Hedjam , Mohamed Cheriet

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

Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (PET/CT) plays a critical role in medical imaging, combining functional and anatomical information to aid in accurate diagnosis. However, image quality degradation due to noise, compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Siqiao Li , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Rui Liang , Chenyue Song , Feng Jiang , Haiqi Zhu , Zhixuan Li , Hong Huang , Xiang Li

Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms aim to reproduce the human's perception of the image quality. The growing popularity of image enhancement, generation, and recovery models instigated the development of many methods to assess their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Segrey Kastryulin , Jamil Zakirov , Nicola Pezzotti , Dmitry V. Dylov

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

Diffusion models are promising for sparse-view novel view synthesis (NVS), as they can generate pseudo-ground-truth views to aid 3D reconstruction pipelines like 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, these synthesized images often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Inseong Choi , Siwoo Lee , Seung-Hun Nam , Soohwan Song

Measuring the perceptual quality of images automatically is an essential task in the area of computer vision, as degradations on image quality can exist in many processes from image acquisition, transmission to enhancing. Many Image Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jing Wang , Haotian Fan , Xiaoxia Hou , Yitian Xu , Tao Li , Xuechao Lu , Lean Fu

Development of perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) metrics has been of significant interest to computer vision community. The aim of these metrics is to model quality of an image as perceived by humans. Recent works in Full-reference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Saikat Dutta , Sourya Dipta Das , Nisarg A. Shah

Automatic Perceptual Image Quality Assessment is a challenging problem that impacts billions of internet, and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a Mixture of Experts approach to train two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Avinab Saha , Sandeep Mishra , Alan C. Bovik

Recent advances in reasoning-induced image quality assessment (IQA) have demonstrated the power of reinforcement learning to rank (RL2R) for training vision-language models (VLMs) to assess perceptual quality. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiangyong Chen , Xiaochuan Lin , Haoran Liu , Xuan Li , Yichen Su , Xiangwei Guo

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) aims to estimate perceptual quality without access to a reference image of pristine quality. Learning an NR-IQA model faces a fundamental bottleneck: its need for a large number of costly human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahdi Naseri , Zhou Wang

Face swapping has become a prominent research area in computer vision and image processing due to rapid technological advancements. The metric of measuring the quality in most face swapping methods relies on several distances between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xinghui Zhou , Wenbo Zhou , Tianyi Wei , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Image quality assessment (IQA) is crucial in the evaluation stage of novel algorithms operating on images, including traditional and machine learning based methods. Due to the lack of available quality-rated medical images, most commonly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Anna Breger , Janek Gröhl , Clemens Karner , Thomas R Else , Ian Selby , Tom Rix , Lara-Sophie Witt , Merle Duchêne , Jonathan Weir-McCall , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Contrast change is an important factor that affects the quality of images. During image capturing, unfavorable lighting conditions can cause contrast change and visual quality loss. While various methods have been proposed to assess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour , Saeed Mahmoudpour

We introduce a novel Image Quality Assessment (IQA) dataset comprising 6073 UHD-1 (4K) images, annotated at a fixed width of 3840 pixels. Contrary to existing No-Reference (NR) IQA datasets, ours focuses on highly aesthetic photos of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Vlad Hosu , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Oliver Wiedemann , Daisuke Iso , Dietmar Saupe

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