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VIEScore2: Unified Image Evaluation System Predicts Quality and Defects

Researchers have introduced VIEScore2, a novel system designed to evaluate synthetic images by not only providing a scalar quality score but also identifying specific regions within the image that contribute to that score. This unified approach, which processes images as an N x N grid, can be used for both image generation and editing tasks. In evaluations, VIEScore2 demonstrated superior performance compared to Gemini 3 Flash on overall score prediction and achieved competitive results in defect localization across multiple benchmarks. AI

IMPACT This new evaluation method could lead to more robust and interpretable assessment of AI-generated images, potentially improving training and fine-tuning processes.

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VIEScore2: Unified Image Evaluation System Predicts Quality and Defects

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Xianda Du, Max Ku, Weiming Ren, Zhi Rui Tam, Chunlin Ren, Ping Nie, Min-Hung Chen, Wenhu Chen ·

    VIEScore2: Unified Image Evaluation with Spatially Grounded Explanations

    arXiv:2610.00994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing synthetic image evaluators typically provide only a scalar quality score and do not identify the image regions that support it. We introduce VIEScore2, a unified evaluator for image generation and editing tasks with optiona…