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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…

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In recent years, Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) has become an indispensable part of the face recognition system to guarantee the stability and reliability of recognition performance in an unconstrained scenario. For this purpose, the…

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Missing values are a major challenge in most data science projects working on real data. To avoid losing valuable information, imputation methods are used to fill in missing values with estimates, allowing the preservation of samples or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Pedro Pons-Suñer , Laura Arnal , J. Ramón Navarro-Cerdán , François Signol

In the fast-evolving field of medical image analysis, Deep Learning (DL)-based methods have achieved tremendous success. However, these methods require plaintext data for training and inference stages, raising privacy concerns, especially…

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In this paper, we propose a deep learning based video quality assessment (VQA) framework to evaluate the quality of the compressed user's generated content (UGC) videos. The proposed VQA framework consists of three modules, the feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Wei Sun , Tao Wang , Xiongkuo Min , Fuwang Yi , Guangtao Zhai

In low-intermediate-frequency (low-IF) receivers, I/Q imbalance (IQI) causes interference on the desired signal from the blocker signal transmitted over the image frequencies. Conventional approaches for data-aided IQI estimation in zero-IF…

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Current no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) models for enhanced images often struggle to generalize, as they tend to overfit to the distinct patterns of specific enhancement algorithms rather than evaluating genuine perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shiqi Gao , Kang Fu , Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Face image quality plays a critical role in determining the accuracy and reliability of face verification systems, particularly in real-time screening applications such as surveillance, identity verification, and access control. Low-quality…

Image quality assessment (IQA) is the key factor for the fast development of image restoration (IR) algorithms. The most recent IR methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved significant improvement in visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Jinjin Gu , Haoming Cai , Haoyu Chen , Xiaoxing Ye , Jimmy Ren , Chao Dong

In the most intrusion detection systems (IDS), a system tries to learn characteristics of different type of attacks by analyzing packets that sent or received in network. These packets have a lot of features. But not all of them is required…

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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

While recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly improved their abilities in image quality assessment (IQA) relying on absolute quality rating, how to transfer reliable relative quality comparison outputs to…

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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…

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ImageNet pre-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) show notable transferability for building effective image quality assessment (IQA) models. Such a remarkable byproduct has often been identified as an emergent property in previous studies.…

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Benefit from large-scale training datasets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have achieved impressive results in face recognition(FR). However, tremendous scale of datasets inevitably lead to noisy data, which obviously reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Wei Hu , Yangyu Huang , Fan Zhang , Ruirui Li

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

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

It is well-known that there is no universal metric for image quality evaluation. In this case, distortion-specific metrics can be more reliable. The artifact imposed by image compression can be considered as a combination of various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 S. Farhad Hosseini-Benvidi , Hossein Motamednia , Azadeh Mansouri , Mohammadreza Raei , Ahmad Mahmoudi-Aznaveh

Generative text-to-image models are advancing at an unprecedented pace, continuously shifting the perceptual quality ceiling and rendering previously collected labels unreliable for newer generations. To address this, we present ELIQ, a…

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Intrinsic image decomposition (IID) is the task of separating an image into albedo and shade. In real-world scenes, it is difficult to quantitatively assess IID quality due to the unavailability of ground truth. The existing method provides…

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