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\underline{AI} \underline{G}enerated \underline{C}ontent (\textbf{AIGC}) has gained widespread attention with the increasing efficiency of deep learning in content creation. AIGC, created with the assistance of artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zicheng Zhang , Chunyi Li , Wei Sun , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Unlike video coding for professional content, the delivery pipeline of User Generated Content (UGC) involves transcoding where unpristine reference content needs to be compressed repeatedly. In this work, we observe that existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Zihao Qi , Chen Feng , Duolikun Danier , Fan Zhang , Xiaozhong Xu , Shan Liu , David Bull

Video quality assessment (VQA) is a challenging problem due to the numerous factors that can affect the perceptual quality of a video, \eg, content attractiveness, distortion type, motion pattern, and level. However, annotating the Mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Kun Yuan , Hongbo Liu , Mading Li , Muyi Sun , Ming Sun , Jiachao Gong , Jinhua Hao , Chao Zhou , Yansong Tang

As multimedia services such as video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring high perceptual visual quality becomes a priority to maintain user satisfaction and competitiveness.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wei Zhou , Hadi Amirpour , Christian Timmerer , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet , Alan C. Bovik

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

Assessing action quality is challenging due to the subtle differences between videos and large variations in scores. Most existing approaches tackle this problem by regressing a quality score from a single video, suffering a lot from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xumin Yu , Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

In response to the rising prominence of the Metaverse, omnidirectional videos (ODVs) have garnered notable interest, gradually shifting from professional-generated content (PGC) to user-generated content (UGC). However, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Fei Zhao , Da Pan , Zelu Qi , Ping Shi

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

With the rapid development of generative models, Artificial Intelligence-Generated Contents (AIGC) have exponentially increased in daily lives. Among them, Text-to-Video (T2V) generation has received widespread attention. Though many T2V…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Tengchuan Kou , Xiaohong Liu , Zicheng Zhang , Chunyi Li , Haoning Wu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Ning Liu

Video quality assessment (VQA) has attracted growing attention in recent years. While the great expense of annotating large-scale VQA datasets has become the main obstacle for current deep-learning methods. To surmount the constraint of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Hongbo Liu , Mingda Wu , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Yansong Tang , Chuanchuan Zheng , Xing Wen , Xiu Li

AI-driven video generation techniques have made significant progress in recent years. However, AI-generated videos (AGVs) involving human activities often exhibit substantial visual and semantic distortions, hindering the practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Zhichao Zhang , Wei Sun , Xinyue Li , Yunhao Li , Qihang Ge , Jun Jia , Zicheng Zhang , Zhongpeng Ji , Fengyu Sun , Shangling Jui , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of user-generated content (UGC) videos shared and streamed over the Internet, thanks to the evolution of affordable and reliable consumer capture devices, and the tremendous popularity of social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Zhengzhong Tu , Yilin Wang , Neil Birkbeck , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Recently, User-Generated Content (UGC) videos have gained popularity in our daily lives. However, UGC videos often suffer from poor exposure due to the limitations of photographic equipment and techniques. Therefore, Video Exposure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Xunchu Zhou , Xiaohong Liu , Yunlong Dong , Tengchuan Kou , Yixuan Gao , Zicheng Zhang , Chunyi Li , Haoning Wu , Guangtao Zhai

The mobile cloud gaming industry has been rapidly growing over the last decade. When streaming gaming videos are transmitted to customers' client devices from cloud servers, algorithms that can monitor distorted video quality without having…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Yu-Chih Chen , Avinab Saha , Chase Davis , Bo Qiu , Xiaoming Wang , Rahul Gowda , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Alan C. Bovik

In recent years, the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has attracted widespread attention. Among the AIGC, AI generated omnidirectional images hold significant potential for Virtual Reality (VR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liu Yang , Huiyu Duan , Long Teng , Yucheng Zhu , Xiaohong Liu , Menghan Hu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet

We study the visual quality judgments of human subjects on digital human avatars (sometimes referred to as "holograms" in the parlance of virtual reality [VR] and augmented reality [AR] systems) that have been subjected to distortions. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yu-Chih Chen , Avinab Saha , Alexandre Chapiro , Christian Häne , Jean-Charles Bazin , Bo Qiu , Stefano Zanetti , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Alan C. Bovik

Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP provides the work of most multimedia services, however, the nature of this technology further complicates the assessment of the QoE (Quality of Experience). In this paper, the influence of various…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Aleksandr Ivchenko , Pavel Kononyuk , Alexander Dvorkovich , Liubov Antiufrieva

No-reference video quality assessment (NR-VQA) for user generated content (UGC) is crucial for understanding and improving visual experience. Unlike video recognition tasks, VQA tasks are sensitive to changes in input resolution. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Junjie Ke , Tianhao Zhang , Yilin Wang , Peyman Milanfar , Feng Yang

With the rapid development of generative technologies, AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) have been widely applied in various aspects of daily life. However, due to the immaturity of the technology, the quality of the generated images varies, so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhenchen Tang , Zichuan Wang , Bo Peng , Jing Dong

Image quality assessment(IQA) is of increasing importance for image-based applications. Its purpose is to establish a model that can replace humans for accurately evaluating image quality. According to whether the reference image is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Lanjiang Wang