Blind image quality prediction by exploiting multi-level deep representations

F Gao, J Yu, S Zhu, Q Huang, Q Tian - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims at precisely estimating human perceived image
quality with no access to a reference. Recently, several attempts have been made to …

Face biometric quality assessment via light CNN

J Yu, K Sun, F Gao, S Zhu - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we proposed a novel biometric quality assessment (BQA) method for face
images and explored its applications in face recognition. Here, we considered five …

A Systematic Approach for Object Detection in Unconstrained Environments

K Thiruthanigesan, RD Nawarathna… - 2023 IEEE 17th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object detection in unconstrained environments could be defined as identifying objects
captured in challenging environments like smoky, wild, and cloudy environments. Object …

Assessing Face Image Quality: A Large-Scale Database and a Transformer Method

T Liu, S Li, M Xu, L Yang, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The amount of face images has been witnessing an explosive increase in the last decade,
where various distortions inevitably exist on transmitted or stored face images. The …

Blind image quality prediction for object detection

L Kong, A Ikusan, R Dai, J Zhu - 2019 IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic video data analysis tools have become indispensable components in today's
imaging applications. The accuracy of automatic analysis methods relies on the quality of …

Context prior-based with residual learning for face detection: A deep convolutional encoder–decoder network

Z Zhou, Z He, Y Jia, J Du, L Wang, Z Chen - Signal Processing: Image …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the field of security, faces are usually blurry, occluded, diverse pose and small in the
image captured by an outdoor surveillance camera, which is affected by the external …

Deep learning for biometric face recognition: experimental study on benchmark data sets

N Selitskaya, S Sielicki, L Jakaite, V Schetinin, F Evans… - Deep Biometrics, 2020 - Springer
There are still problems in applications of Machine Learning for face recognition. Such
factors as lighting conditions, head rotations, emotions, and view angles affect the …

Supervised dictionary learning for blind image quality assessment using quality-constraint sparse coding

Q Jiang, F Shao, G Jiang, M Yu, Z Peng - Journal of Visual Communication …, 2015 - Elsevier
Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) involves predicting the perceptual quality of distorted
images without using their corresponding reference images as benchmark. Especially, it is …

Quality aware features for performance prediction and time reduction in video object tracking

R Gomez-Nieto, JF Ruiz-Muñoz, J Beron… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The existing body of work on video object tracking (VOT) algorithms has studied various
image conditions such as occlusion, clutter, and object shape, which influence video quality …

An image quality adjustment framework for object detection on embedded cameras

L Kong, A Ikusan, R Dai, D Ros - International Journal of Multimedia …, 2021 - igi-global.com
Automatic analysis tools are ubiquitously applied on wireless embedded cameras to extract
high-level information from raw data. The quality of images may be degraded by factors such …