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New framework enhances image quality assessment by separating perception from semantics

Researchers have developed a new framework called the Cross-modal Perception Alignment Adapter (CMPA) to improve No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) by addressing limitations in current Large Vision-Language Models like CLIP. CMPA utilizes a Perception-Sensitive Feature Extractor (PFE) to isolate perceptual distortions from semantic information and a Cross-Modal Perception Alignment Injector (PAI) to align these features with quality-aware text. Additionally, a Residual-enhanced Perceptual Downscaling strategy compensates for information loss during downscaling using Just Noticeable Difference (JND) guided frequency re-injection. Evaluations show CMPA significantly outperforms existing methods in recovering perceptual signals. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more accurate and reliable image quality assessment tools, impacting fields that rely on visual data integrity.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yu Li, Zhengran Shen, Yachun Mi, Puchao Zhou, Shaohui Liu ·

    Bridging the Perceptual Gap: Residual-Enhanced Downscaling and Manifold-Aware Perception Alignment Adaptation for NR-IQA

    arXiv:2609.16664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leveraging Large Vision-Language Models like CLIP has recently set new benchmarks for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA). However, the contrastive pretraining of CLIP inherently prioritizes semantic invariance, which oft…