MDIQA: Unified Image Quality Assessment for Multi-dimensional Evaluation and Restoration

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Main Authors: Yao, Shunyu, Liu, Ming, Zhang, Zhilu, Wan, Zhaolin, Ji, Zhilong, Bai, Jinfeng, Zuo, Wangmeng
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author Yao, Shunyu
Liu, Ming
Zhang, Zhilu
Wan, Zhaolin
Ji, Zhilong
Bai, Jinfeng
Zuo, Wangmeng
author_facet Yao, Shunyu
Liu, Ming
Zhang, Zhilu
Wan, Zhaolin
Ji, Zhilong
Bai, Jinfeng
Zuo, Wangmeng
contents Recent advancements in image quality assessment (IQA), driven by sophisticated deep neural network designs, have significantly improved the ability to approach human perceptions. However, most existing methods are obsessed with fitting the overall score, neglecting the fact that humans typically evaluate image quality from different dimensions before arriving at an overall quality assessment. To overcome this problem, we propose a multi-dimensional image quality assessment (MDIQA) framework. Specifically, we model image quality across various perceptual dimensions, including five technical and four aesthetic dimensions, to capture the multifaceted nature of human visual perception within distinct branches. Each branch of our MDIQA is initially trained under the guidance of a separate dimension, and the respective features are then amalgamated to generate the final IQA score. Additionally, when the MDIQA model is ready, we can deploy it for a flexible training of image restoration (IR) models, enabling the restoration results to better align with varying user preferences through the adjustment of perceptual dimension weights. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our MDIQA achieves superior performance and can be effectively and flexibly applied to image restoration tasks. The code is available: https://github.com/YaoShunyu19/MDIQA.
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spellingShingle MDIQA: Unified Image Quality Assessment for Multi-dimensional Evaluation and Restoration
Yao, Shunyu
Liu, Ming
Zhang, Zhilu
Wan, Zhaolin
Ji, Zhilong
Bai, Jinfeng
Zuo, Wangmeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Recent advancements in image quality assessment (IQA), driven by sophisticated deep neural network designs, have significantly improved the ability to approach human perceptions. However, most existing methods are obsessed with fitting the overall score, neglecting the fact that humans typically evaluate image quality from different dimensions before arriving at an overall quality assessment. To overcome this problem, we propose a multi-dimensional image quality assessment (MDIQA) framework. Specifically, we model image quality across various perceptual dimensions, including five technical and four aesthetic dimensions, to capture the multifaceted nature of human visual perception within distinct branches. Each branch of our MDIQA is initially trained under the guidance of a separate dimension, and the respective features are then amalgamated to generate the final IQA score. Additionally, when the MDIQA model is ready, we can deploy it for a flexible training of image restoration (IR) models, enabling the restoration results to better align with varying user preferences through the adjustment of perceptual dimension weights. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our MDIQA achieves superior performance and can be effectively and flexibly applied to image restoration tasks. The code is available: https://github.com/YaoShunyu19/MDIQA.
title MDIQA: Unified Image Quality Assessment for Multi-dimensional Evaluation and Restoration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16887