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While recent face recognition (FR) systems achieve excellent results in many deployment scenarios, their performance in challenging real-world settings is still under question. For this reason, face image quality assessment (FIQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

Multi-level deep-features have been driving state-of-the-art methods for aesthetics and image quality assessment (IQA). However, most IQA benchmarks are comprised of artificially distorted images, for which features derived from ImageNet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Hanhe Lin , Vlad Hosu , Dietmar Saupe

Scale-invariance is an open problem in many computer vision subfields. For example, object labels should remain constant across scales, yet model predictions diverge in many cases. This problem gets harder for tasks where the ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Oliver Wiedemann , Vlad Hosu , Shaolin Su , Dietmar Saupe

Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been proposed to solve this problem, existing methods inevitably introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zhenqiang Ying , Ge Li , Wen Gao

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aim to simulate human subjective perception of image visual quality and aesthetic appeal. Despite distinct learning objectives, they have underlying interconnectedness due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hantao Zhou , Longxiang Tang , Rui Yang , Guanyi Qin , Yan Zhang , Yutao Li , Xiu Li , Runze Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Image fusion plays a key role in a variety of multi-sensor-based vision systems, especially for enhancing visual quality and/or extracting aggregated features for perception. However, most existing methods just consider image fusion as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Risheng Liu , Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains a very challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. Deep learning based BIQA methods have been attracting increasing attention in recent years, yet it remains a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang , Alan C. Bovik

Multimodal large language models have demonstrated strong ability in capturing semantic representations for multimodal sentiment analysis. Their capacity to learn stable and generalizable multimodal features is limited, however, by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiazhang Liang , Jianheng Dai , Miaosen Luo , Menghua Jiang , Sijie Mai

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

Multi-index fusion has demonstrated impressive performances in retrieval task by integrating different visual representations in a unified framework. However, previous works mainly consider propagating similarities via neighbor structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Wensheng Zhang , Qi Tian

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

The human visual perception system has strong robustness in image fusion. This robustness is based on human visual perception system's characteristics of feature selection and non-linear fusion of different features. In order to simulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Aiqing Fang , Xinbo Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Yanning Zhang

Integration of multimodal information from various sources has been shown to boost the performance of machine learning models and thus has received increased attention in recent years. Often such models use deep modality-specific networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shiv Shankar , Laure Thompson , Madalina Fiterau

Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean Ponce

Infrared and visible images, as multi-modal image pairs, show significant differences in the expression of the same scene. The image fusion task is faced with two problems: one is to maintain the unique features between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zixuan Wang , Bin Sun

Image quality assessment (IQA) is an active research area in the field of image processing. Most prior works focus on visual quality of natural images captured by cameras. In this paper, we explore visual quality of scanned documents,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Justin Yang , Peter Bauer , Todd Harris , Changhyung Lee , Hyeon Seok Seo , Jan P Allebach , Fengqing Zhu

Pairwise image quality assessment (IQA) in professional photography requires a model not only to identify the preferred image between two candidates, but also to provide convincing and image-grounded reasoning. In the NTIRE 2026 RAIM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xinli Yue , JianHui Sun , Tao Shao , Liangchao Yao , Fan Xia , Yuetang Deng

Various and different methods can be used to produce high-resolution multispectral images from high-resolution panchromatic image (PAN) and low-resolution multispectral images (MS), mostly on the pixel level. However, the jury is still out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , N. V. Kalyankar , Ali A. Al-Zaky

Infrared and visible image fusion has emerged as a prominent research area in computer vision. However, little attention has been paid to the fusion task in complex scenes, leading to sub-optimal results under interference. To fill this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Tianshu Tan , Huafeng Li , Tao Ye

Existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods are mostly designed in a disposable way and cannot evolve with unseen distortions adaptively, which greatly limits the deployment and application of BIQA models in real-world scenarios.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jianzhao Liu , Wei Zhou , Jiahua Xu , Xin Li , Shukun An , Zhibo Chen