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Drone image quality assessment system uses vision-language ensemble

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Researchers have developed DroneIQA-VLE, a system designed for multi-task drone image quality assessment, which secured second place in the ICME 2026 Drone-IQA Grand Challenge. This framework integrates a SigLIP2 vision encoder with multi-task regression heads and a LoRA-adapted Qwen3.5-9B large language model to predict global, target, and background quality scores. The final global quality prediction is an average of the outputs from these two distinct pipelines, showcasing an effective ensemble approach for evaluating low-altitude UAV imagery. AI

IMPACT This research advances automated quality assessment for drone imagery, potentially improving data collection and analysis in various applications.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang, Hongjian Zhan, Mingkai Lu, Yixuan Gao, Guangtao Zhai ·

    DroneIQA-VLE: Multi-Task Drone Image Quality Assessment via Vision-Language Ensemble

    arXiv:2607.00416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DroneIQA-VLE, our solution to the ICME 2026 Drone-IQA Grand Challenge on Target-aware Image Quality Assessment for Low-altitude UAV Images. The framework jointly predicts global, target, and background quality scores by e…

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