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Q-Refine: A Perceptual Quality Refiner for AI-Generated Image

2 Jan 2024arXiv:2401.01117archive 2025-07-28

Chunyi Li, HaoNing Wu, ZiCheng Zhang, Hongkun Hao, Kaiwei Zhang, Lei Bai, Xiaohong Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Weisi Lin, Guangtao Zhai

With the rapid evolution of the Text-to-Image (T2I) model in recent years, their unsatisfactory generation result has become a challenge. However, uniformly refining AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) of different qualities not only limited optimization capabilities for low-quality AIGIs but also brought negative optimization to high-quality AIGIs. To address this issue, a quality-award refiner named Q-Refine is proposed. Based on the preference of the Human Visual System (HVS), Q-Refine uses the Image Quality Assessment (IQA) metric to guide the refining process for the first time, and modify images of different qualities through three adaptive pipelines. Experimental shows that for mainstream T2I models, Q-Refine can perform effective optimization to AIGIs of different qualities. It can be a general refiner to optimize AIGIs from both fidelity and aesthetic quality levels, thus expanding the application of the T2I generation models.

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