Image quality assessment: Unifying structure and texture similarity

K Ding, K Ma, S Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective measures of image quality generally operate by comparing pixels of a “degraded”
image to those of the original. Relative to human observers, these measures are overly …

Uncertainty-aware blind image quality assessment in the laboratory and wild

W Zhang, K Ma, G Zhai, X Yang - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Performance of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models has been significantly
boosted by end-to-end optimization of feature engineering and quality regression …

Comparison of full-reference image quality models for optimization of image processing systems

K Ding, K Ma, S Wang, EP Simoncelli - International Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Springer
The performance of objective image quality assessment (IQA) models has been evaluated
primarily by comparing model predictions to human quality judgments. Perceptual datasets …

Fast multi-scale structural patch decomposition for multi-exposure image fusion

H Li, K Ma, H Yong, L Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exposure bracketing is crucial to high dynamic range imaging, but it is prone to halos for
static scenes and ghosting artifacts for dynamic scenes. The recently proposed structural …

A Haar wavelet-based perceptual similarity index for image quality assessment

R Reisenhofer, S Bosse, G Kutyniok… - Signal Processing: Image …, 2018 - Elsevier
In most practical situations, the compression or transmission of images and videos creates
distortions that will eventually be perceived by a human observer. Vice versa, image and …

Unsupervised deep exemplar colorization via pyramid dual non-local attention

H Wang, D Zhai, X Liu, J Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exemplar-based colorization is a challenging task, which attempts to add colors to the target
grayscale image with the aid of a reference color image, so as to keep the target semantic …

Learning to blindly assess image quality in the laboratory and wild

W Zhang, K Ma, G Zhai, X Yang - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational models for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) are typically trained in well-
controlled laboratory environments with limited generalizability to realistically distorted …

Eigen-distortions of hierarchical representations

A Berardino, V Laparra, J Ballé… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We develop a method for comparing hierarchical image representations in terms of their
ability to explain perceptual sensitivity in humans. Specifically, we utilize Fisher information …

Neural networks for efficient bayesian decoding of natural images from retinal neurons

N Parthasarathy, E Batty, W Falcon… - Advances in …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Decoding sensory stimuli from neural signals can be used to reveal how we sense our
physical environment, and is valuable for the design of brain-machine interfaces. However …

Perceptual quality assessment of omnidirectional images as moving camera videos

X Sui, K Ma, Y Yao, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Omnidirectional images (also referred to as static 360 panoramas) impose viewing
conditions much different from those of regular 2D images. How do humans perceive image …