AU-IQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Perceptual Quality Assessment of AI-Enhanced User-Generated Content

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Main Authors: Wang, Shushi, Li, Chunyi, Zhang, Zicheng, Zhou, Han, Dong, Wei, Chen, Jun, Zhai, Guangtao, Liu, Xiaohong
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author Wang, Shushi
Li, Chunyi
Zhang, Zicheng
Zhou, Han
Dong, Wei
Chen, Jun
Zhai, Guangtao
Liu, Xiaohong
author_facet Wang, Shushi
Li, Chunyi
Zhang, Zicheng
Zhou, Han
Dong, Wei
Chen, Jun
Zhai, Guangtao
Liu, Xiaohong
contents AI-based image enhancement techniques have been widely adopted in various visual applications, significantly improving the perceptual quality of user-generated content (UGC). However, the lack of specialized quality assessment models has become a significant limiting factor in this field, limiting user experience and hindering the advancement of enhancement methods. While perceptual quality assessment methods have shown strong performance on UGC and AIGC individually, their effectiveness on AI-enhanced UGC (AI-UGC) which blends features from both, remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we construct AU-IQA, a benchmark dataset comprising 4,800 AI-UGC images produced by three representative enhancement types which include super-resolution, low-light enhancement, and denoising. On this dataset, we further evaluate a range of existing quality assessment models, including traditional IQA methods and large multimodal models. Finally, we provide a comprehensive analysis of how well current approaches perform in assessing the perceptual quality of AI-UGC. The access link to the AU-IQA is https://github.com/WNNGGU/AU-IQA-Dataset.
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spellingShingle AU-IQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Perceptual Quality Assessment of AI-Enhanced User-Generated Content
Wang, Shushi
Li, Chunyi
Zhang, Zicheng
Zhou, Han
Dong, Wei
Chen, Jun
Zhai, Guangtao
Liu, Xiaohong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
AI-based image enhancement techniques have been widely adopted in various visual applications, significantly improving the perceptual quality of user-generated content (UGC). However, the lack of specialized quality assessment models has become a significant limiting factor in this field, limiting user experience and hindering the advancement of enhancement methods. While perceptual quality assessment methods have shown strong performance on UGC and AIGC individually, their effectiveness on AI-enhanced UGC (AI-UGC) which blends features from both, remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we construct AU-IQA, a benchmark dataset comprising 4,800 AI-UGC images produced by three representative enhancement types which include super-resolution, low-light enhancement, and denoising. On this dataset, we further evaluate a range of existing quality assessment models, including traditional IQA methods and large multimodal models. Finally, we provide a comprehensive analysis of how well current approaches perform in assessing the perceptual quality of AI-UGC. The access link to the AU-IQA is https://github.com/WNNGGU/AU-IQA-Dataset.
title AU-IQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Perceptual Quality Assessment of AI-Enhanced User-Generated Content
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05016