Video Quality Assessment

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30 shown of 116 papers with code (216 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Towards Deep Learning Models Resistant to Adversarial Attacks
  19 Jun 2017 59 repositories listed Syntology ran 9 of 17 samples · 8 unverified · 13 pointer-only (licence)
  Its principled nature also enables us to identify methods for both training and attacking neural networks that are reliable and, in a certain sense, universal.
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric
  11 Jan 2018 24 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified
  We systematically evaluate deep features across different architectures and tasks and compare them with classic metrics.
• Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
  12 Nov 2013 18 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 4 samples · 2 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Large Convolutional Network models have recently demonstrated impressive classification performance on the ImageNet benchmark.
• NIMA: Neural Image Assessment
  15 Sep 2017 12 repositories listed
  Automatically learned quality assessment for images has recently become a hot topic due to its usefulness in a wide variety of applications such as evaluating image capture pipelines, storage techniques and sharing…
• The 2018 PIRM Challenge on Perceptual Image Super-resolution
  20 Sep 2018 8 repositories listed
  This paper reports on the 2018 PIRM challenge on perceptual super-resolution (SR), held in conjunction with the Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation (PIRM) workshop at ECCV 2018.
• UGC-VQA: Benchmarking Blind Video Quality Assessment for User Generated Content
  29 May 2020 5 repositories listed
  Recent years have witnessed an explosion of user-generated content (UGC) videos shared and streamed over the Internet, thanks to the evolution of affordable and reliable consumer capture devices, and the tremendous…
• Neighbourhood Representative Sampling for Efficient End-to-end Video Quality Assessment
  11 Oct 2022 4 repositories listed
  On the other hand, existing practices, such as resizing and cropping, will change the quality of original videos due to the loss of details and contents, and are therefore harmful to quality assessment.
• FAST-VQA: Efficient End-to-end Video Quality Assessment with Fragment Sampling
  6 Jul 2022 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 5 samples · 3 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  Consisting of fragments and FANet, the proposed FrAgment Sample Transformer for VQA (FAST-VQA) enables efficient end-to-end deep VQA and learns effective video-quality-related representations.
• Exploring Video Quality Assessment on User Generated Contents from Aesthetic and Technical Perspectives
  9 Nov 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  In light of this, we propose the Disentangled Objective Video Quality Evaluator (DOVER) to learn the quality of UGC videos based on the two perspectives.
• Attentions Help CNNs See Better: Attention-based Hybrid Image Quality Assessment Network
  22 Apr 2022 3 repositories listed
  Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithm aims to quantify the human perception of image quality.
• Test-Time Training with Self-Supervision for Generalization under Distribution Shifts
  29 Sep 2019 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose Test-Time Training, a general approach for improving the performance of predictive models when training and test data come from different distributions.
• VE-Bench: Subjective-Aligned Benchmark Suite for Text-Driven Video Editing Quality Assessment
  21 Aug 2024 2 repositories listed
  To the best of our knowledge, VE-Bench introduces the first quality assessment dataset for video editing and an effective subjective-aligned quantitative metric for this domain.
• Fréchet Video Motion Distance: A Metric for Evaluating Motion Consistency in Videos
  23 Jul 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 20 of 23 samples · 3 unverified
  Despite the impressive progress, research on metrics for evaluating the quality of generated videos, especially concerning temporal and motion consistency, remains underexplored.
• Towards Robust Text-Prompted Semantic Criterion for In-the-Wild Video Quality Assessment
  28 Apr 2023 2 repositories listed
  The proliferation of videos collected during in-the-wild natural settings has pushed the development of effective Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methodologies.
• VILA: Learning Image Aesthetics from User Comments with Vision-Language Pretraining
  24 Mar 2023 2 repositories listed
  Our results show that our pretrained aesthetic vision-language model outperforms prior works on image aesthetic captioning over the AVA-Captions dataset, and it has powerful zero-shot capability for aesthetic tasks such…
• Exploring Opinion-unaware Video Quality Assessment with Semantic Affinity Criterion
  26 Feb 2023 2 repositories listed
  Recent learning-based video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms are expensive to implement due to the cost of data collection of human quality opinions, and are less robust across various scenarios due to the biases of…
• Shift-tolerant Perceptual Similarity Metric
  27 Jul 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 21 samples · 14 unverified
  This paper studies the effect of small misalignment, specifically a small shift between the input and reference image, on existing metrics, and accordingly develops a shift-tolerant similarity metric.
• Image Quality Assessment using Contrastive Learning
  25 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  We consider the problem of obtaining image quality representations in a self-supervised manner.
• Blindly Assess Quality of In-the-Wild Videos via Quality-aware Pre-training and Motion Perception
  19 Aug 2021 2 repositories listed
  The inaccessibility of reference videos with pristine quality and the complexity of authentic distortions pose great challenges for this kind of blind video quality assessment (BVQA) task.
• MUSIQ: Multi-scale Image Quality Transformer
  12 Aug 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 6 samples · 1 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  To accommodate this, the input images are usually resized and cropped to a fixed shape, causing image quality degradation.
• Study on the Assessment of the Quality of Experience of Streaming Video
  8 Dec 2020 2 repositories listed
  VQA (Video Quality Assessment) models based on regression and gradient boosting with SRCC reaching up to 0.
• Perceptual Quality Assessment of Omnidirectional Images as Moving Camera Videos
  21 May 2020 2 repositories listed
  We first carry out a psychophysical experiment to investigate the interplay among the VR viewing conditions, the user viewing behaviors, and the perceived quality of 360{\deg} images.
• Image Quality Assessment: Unifying Structure and Texture Similarity
  16 Apr 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified
  Objective measures of image quality generally operate by comparing pixels of a "degraded" image to those of the original.
• From Patches to Pictures (PaQ-2-PiQ): Mapping the Perceptual Space of Picture Quality
  20 Dec 2019 2 repositories listed
  Blind or no-reference (NR) perceptual picture quality prediction is a difficult, unsolved problem of great consequence to the social and streaming media industries that impacts billions of viewers daily.
• KonIQ-10k: An ecologically valid database for deep learning of blind image quality assessment
  14 Oct 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified
  Deep learning methods for image quality assessment (IQA) are limited due to the small size of existing datasets.
• Quality Assessment of In-the-Wild Videos
  1 Aug 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified
  We propose an objective no-reference video quality assessment method by integrating both effects into a deep neural network.
• Power of Tempospatially Unified Spectral Density for Perceptual Video Quality Assessment
  12 Dec 2018 2 repositories listed
  This is a full-reference tempospatial approach that considers both temporal and spatial PSD characteristics.
• UNIQUE: Unsupervised Image Quality Estimation
  15 Oct 2018 2 repositories listed
  A linear decoder is trained with 7 GB worth of data, which corresponds to 100, 000 8x8 image patches randomly obtained from nearly 1, 000 images in the ImageNet 2013 database.
• Learning a No-Reference Quality Metric for Single-Image Super-Resolution
  18 Dec 2016 2 repositories listed
  Numerous single-image super-resolution algorithms have been proposed in the literature, but few studies address the problem of performance evaluation based on visual perception.
• Multiscale structural similarity for image quality assessment
  4 May 2004 2 repositories listed
  The structural similarity image quality paradigm is based on the assumption that the human visual system is highly adapted for extracting structural information from the scene, and therefore a measure of structural…

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