Describe-to-Score: Text-Guided Efficient Image Complexity Assessment

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Autores principales: Liu, Shipeng, Zhang, Zhonglin, Chen, Dengfeng, Zhao, Liang
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author Liu, Shipeng
Zhang, Zhonglin
Chen, Dengfeng
Zhao, Liang
author_facet Liu, Shipeng
Zhang, Zhonglin
Chen, Dengfeng
Zhao, Liang
contents Accurately assessing image complexity (IC) is critical for computer vision, yet most existing methods rely solely on visual features and often neglect high-level semantic information, limiting their accuracy and generalization. We introduce vision-text fusion for IC modeling. This approach integrates visual and textual semantic features, increasing representational diversity. It also reduces the complexity of the hypothesis space, which enhances both accuracy and generalization in complexity assessment. We propose the D2S (Describe-to-Score) framework, which generates image captions with a pre-trained vision-language model. We propose the feature alignment and entropy distribution alignment mechanisms, D2S guides semantic information to inform complexity assessment while bridging the gap between vision and text modalities. D2S utilizes multi-modal information during training but requires only the vision branch during inference, thereby avoiding multi-modal computational overhead and enabling efficient assessment. Experimental results demonstrate that D2S outperforms existing methods on the IC9600 dataset and maintains competitiveness on no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) benchmark, validating the effectiveness and efficiency of multi-modal fusion in complexity-related tasks. Code is available at: https://github.com/xauat-liushipeng/D2S
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spellingShingle Describe-to-Score: Text-Guided Efficient Image Complexity Assessment
Liu, Shipeng
Zhang, Zhonglin
Chen, Dengfeng
Zhao, Liang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurately assessing image complexity (IC) is critical for computer vision, yet most existing methods rely solely on visual features and often neglect high-level semantic information, limiting their accuracy and generalization. We introduce vision-text fusion for IC modeling. This approach integrates visual and textual semantic features, increasing representational diversity. It also reduces the complexity of the hypothesis space, which enhances both accuracy and generalization in complexity assessment. We propose the D2S (Describe-to-Score) framework, which generates image captions with a pre-trained vision-language model. We propose the feature alignment and entropy distribution alignment mechanisms, D2S guides semantic information to inform complexity assessment while bridging the gap between vision and text modalities. D2S utilizes multi-modal information during training but requires only the vision branch during inference, thereby avoiding multi-modal computational overhead and enabling efficient assessment. Experimental results demonstrate that D2S outperforms existing methods on the IC9600 dataset and maintains competitiveness on no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) benchmark, validating the effectiveness and efficiency of multi-modal fusion in complexity-related tasks. Code is available at: https://github.com/xauat-liushipeng/D2S
title Describe-to-Score: Text-Guided Efficient Image Complexity Assessment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16609