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 …

Comparing deep learning models for low-light natural scene image enhancement and their impact on object detection and classification: Overview, empirical …

R Al Sobbahi, J Tekli - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
Low-light image (LLI) enhancement is an important image processing task that aims at
improving the illumination of images taken under low-light conditions. Recently, a …

NIMA: Neural image assessment

H Talebi, P Milanfar - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A bio-inspired multi-exposure fusion framework for low-light image enhancement

Z Ying, G Li, W Gao - arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00591, 2017 - arxiv.org
Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms
due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been …

Learning a no-reference quality assessment model of enhanced images with big data

K Gu, D Tao, JF Qiao, W Lin - IEEE transactions on neural …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate into the problem of image quality assessment (IQA) and
enhancement via machine learning. This issue has long attracted a wide range of attention …

Simple low-light image enhancement based on Weber–Fechner law in logarithmic space

W Wang, Z Chen, X Yuan - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
In an environment with poor illumination, such as indoor, night, and overcast conditions, the
image information can be seriously lost, which affects the visual effect and degrades the …

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) …

Attention-guided neural networks for full-reference and no-reference audio-visual quality assessment

Y Cao, X Min, W Sun, G Zhai - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the popularity of mobile Internet, audio and video (A/V) have become the main way for
people to entertain and socialize daily. However, in order to reduce the cost of media …

Low-light image enhancement using variational optimization-based retinex model

S Park, S Yu, B Moon, S Ko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an optimization-based low-light image enhancement method using
spatially adaptive l 2-norm based Retinex model. The proposed method adaptively enforces …

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 …