Perceptual image quality assessment: a survey

G Zhai, X Min - Science China Information Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Perceptual quality assessment plays a vital role in the visual communication systems owing
to the existence of quality degradations introduced in various stages of visual signal …

Seven challenges in image quality assessment: past, present, and future research

DM Chandler - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Image quality assessment (IQA) has been a topic of intense research over the last several
decades. With each year comes an increasing number of new IQA algorithms, extensions of …

Single image super-resolution quality assessment: a real-world dataset, subjective studies, and an objective metric

Q Jiang, Z Liu, K Gu, F Shao, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms have been proposed during the
past years to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) image from its low-resolution (LR) …

Using free energy principle for blind image quality assessment

K Gu, G Zhai, X Yang, W Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we propose a new no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) metric
using the recently revealed free-energy-based brain theory and classical human visual …

No-reference quality metric of contrast-distorted images based on information maximization

K Gu, W Lin, G Zhai, X Yang, W Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The general purpose of seeing a picture is to attain information as much as possible. With it,
we in this paper devise a new no-reference/blind metric for image quality assessment (IQA) …

The analysis of image contrast: From quality assessment to automatic enhancement

K Gu, G Zhai, W Lin, M Liu - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proper contrast change can improve the perceptual quality of most images, but it has largely
been overlooked in the current research of image quality assessment (IQA). To fill this void …

No-reference image sharpness assessment in autoregressive parameter space

K Gu, G Zhai, W Lin, X Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a new no-reference (NR)/blind sharpness metric in the
autoregressive (AR) parameter space. Our model is established via the analysis of AR …

No-reference quality assessment of screen content pictures

K Gu, J Zhou, JF Qiao, G Zhai, W Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed a growing number of image and video centric applications on
mobile, vehicular, and cloud platforms, involving a wide variety of digital screen content …

Blind image quality assessment with active inference

J Ma, J Wu, L Li, W Dong, X **e… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is a useful but challenging task. It is a promising idea
to design BIQA methods by mimicking the working mechanism of human visual system …

Saliency-guided quality assessment of screen content images

K Gu, S Wang, H Yang, W Lin, G Zhai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the widespread adoption of multidevice communication, such as telecommuting, screen
content images (SCIs) have become more closely and frequently related to our daily lives …