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Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empowered Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to achieve superior human preference alignment in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, existing RL-based IQA models typically rely on coarse-grained…

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Learning disentangled causal representations is a challenging problem that has gained significant attention recently due to its implications for extracting meaningful information for downstream tasks. In this work, we define a new notion of…

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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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision that has witnessed remarkable progress with deep neural networks. Inspired by the characteristics of the human visual system, existing methods typically use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chaofeng Chen , Jiadi Mo , Jingwen Hou , Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Previous methods typically focus on predicting numerical scores without explanation or providing low-level descriptions lacking precise scores. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Guoqiang Liang , Jianyi Wang , Zhonghua Wu , Shangchen Zhou

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with references plays an important role in optimizing and evaluating computer vision tasks. Traditional methods assume that all pixels of the reference and test images are fully aligned. Such Aligned-Reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Zhou Wang

With the rapid advancement of Vision Language Models (VLMs), VLM-based Image Quality Assessment (IQA) seeks to describe image quality linguistically to align with human expression and capture the multifaceted nature of IQA tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhiyuan You , Jinjin Gu , Xin Cai , Zheyuan Li , Kaiwen Zhu , Chao Dong , Tianfan Xue

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are increasingly deployed as perceptual critics to guide generative models and image restoration. This role demands not only accurate scores but also actionable, localized feedback. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xudong Li , Jiaxi Tan , Ziyin Zhou , Yan Zhong , Zihao Huang , Jingyuan Zheng , Yan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

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

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

Human fingerprints are detailed and nearly unique markers of human identity. Such a unique and stable fingerprint is also left on each acquired image. It can reveal how an image was degraded during the image acquisition procedure and thus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Jing Xiao

Automatic perception of image quality is a challenging problem that impacts billions of Internet and social media users daily. To advance research in this field, we propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) method termed…

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No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu

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

This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method based on image entropy. The image features are extracted from two domains. In the spatial domain, the mutual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xiaoqiao Chen , Qingyi Zhang , Manhui Lin , Guangyi Yang , Chu He

A good distortion representation is crucial for the success of deep blind image quality assessment (BIQA). However, most previous methods do not effectively model the relationship between distortions or the distribution of samples with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Simeng Sun , Tao Yu , Jiahua Xu , Wei Zhou , Zhibo Chen

We propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) approach that learns from rankings (RankIQA). To address the problem of limited IQA dataset size, we train a Siamese Network to rank images in terms of image quality by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

The process of generating data such as images is controlled by independent and unknown factors of variation. The retrieval of these variables has been studied extensively in the disentanglement, causal representation learning, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Gaël Gendron , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

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…

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