Panoptic Pairwise Distortion Graph

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Main Authors: Janjua, Muhammad Kamran, Wahab, Abdul, Rashidi, Bahador
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Published: 2026
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author Janjua, Muhammad Kamran
Wahab, Abdul
Rashidi, Bahador
author_facet Janjua, Muhammad Kamran
Wahab, Abdul
Rashidi, Bahador
contents In this work, we introduce a new perspective on comparative image assessment by representing an image pair as a structured composition of its regions. In contrast, existing methods focus on whole image analysis, while implicitly relying on region-level understanding. We extend the intra-image notion of a scene graph to inter-image, and propose a novel task of Distortion Graph (DG). DG treats paired images as a structured topology grounded in regions, and represents dense degradation information such as distortion type, severity, comparison and quality score in a compact interpretable graph structure. To realize the task of learning a distortion graph, we contribute (i) a region-level dataset, PandaSet, (ii) a benchmark suite, PandaBench, with varying region-level difficulty, and (iii) an efficient architecture, Panda, to generate distortion graphs. We demonstrate that PandaBench poses a significant challenge for state-of-the-art multimodal large language models (MLLMs) as they fail to understand region-level degradations even when fed with explicit region cues. We show that training on PandaSet or prompting with DG elicits region-wise distortion understanding, opening a new direction for fine-grained, structured pairwise image assessment.
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Janjua, Muhammad Kamran
Wahab, Abdul
Rashidi, Bahador
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
In this work, we introduce a new perspective on comparative image assessment by representing an image pair as a structured composition of its regions. In contrast, existing methods focus on whole image analysis, while implicitly relying on region-level understanding. We extend the intra-image notion of a scene graph to inter-image, and propose a novel task of Distortion Graph (DG). DG treats paired images as a structured topology grounded in regions, and represents dense degradation information such as distortion type, severity, comparison and quality score in a compact interpretable graph structure. To realize the task of learning a distortion graph, we contribute (i) a region-level dataset, PandaSet, (ii) a benchmark suite, PandaBench, with varying region-level difficulty, and (iii) an efficient architecture, Panda, to generate distortion graphs. We demonstrate that PandaBench poses a significant challenge for state-of-the-art multimodal large language models (MLLMs) as they fail to understand region-level degradations even when fed with explicit region cues. We show that training on PandaSet or prompting with DG elicits region-wise distortion understanding, opening a new direction for fine-grained, structured pairwise image assessment.
title Panoptic Pairwise Distortion Graph
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11004