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ArmorOCR: Grounded Adversarial Visual Perception via Observation-Transferred Self-Distillation
Linhan Cao, Siyuan Li, Jun Lan +8
Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated strong OCR recognition capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to adversarial visual text that is readable to humans but challenging fo…
ICME 2026 Grand Challenge on Cross-Scenario Defect Detection and Fine-Grained Severity Grading for High-Precision Manufacturing
Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang, Linhan Cao +30
This paper presents the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2026 Grand Challenge on Cross-Scenario Defect Detection and Fine-Grained Severity Grading for Hi…
QualiRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Visual Quality Understanding
Linhan Cao, Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang +6
Visual quality assessment (VQA) is increasingly shifting from scalar score prediction toward interpretable quality understanding -- a paradigm that demands \textit{fine-grained spa…
Adapter Shield: A Unified Framework with Built-in Authentication for Preventing Unauthorized Zero-Shot Image-to-Image Generation
Jun Jia, Hongyi Miao, Yingjie Zhou +8
With the rapid progress in diffusion models, image synthesis has advanced to the stage of zero-shot image-to-image generation, where high-fidelity replication of facial identities…
DLADiff: A Dual-Layer Defense Framework against Fine-Tuning and Zero-Shot Customization of Diffusion Models
Jun Jia, Hongyi Miao, Yingjie Zhou +8
With the rapid advancement of diffusion models, a variety of fine-tuning methods have been developed, enabling high-fidelity image generation with high similarity to the target con…
VITAL: Vision-Encoder-centered Pre-training for LMMs in Visual Quality Assessment
Ziheng Jia, Linhan Cao, Jinliang Han +6
Developing a robust visual quality assessment (VQualA) large multi-modal model (LMM) requires achieving versatility, powerfulness, and transferability. However, existing VQualA LMM…
VQualA 2025 Challenge on Visual Quality Comparison for Large Multimodal Models: Methods and Results
Hanwei Zhu, Haoning Wu, Zicheng Zhang +26
This paper presents a summary of the VQualA 2025 Challenge on Visual Quality Comparison for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), hosted as part of the ICCV 2025 Workshop on Visual Quali…
VQualA 2025 Challenge on Engagement Prediction for Short Videos: Methods and Results
Dasong Li, Sizhuo Ma, Hang Hua +40
This paper presents an overview of the VQualA 2025 Challenge on Engagement Prediction for Short Videos, held in conjunction with ICCV 2025. The challenge focuses on understanding a…
VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results
Sizhuo Ma, Wei-Ting Chen, Qiang Gao +56
Face images play a crucial role in numerous applications; however, real-world conditions frequently introduce degradations such as noise, blur, and compression artifacts, affecting…
Engagement Prediction of Short Videos with Large Multimodal Models
Wei Sun, Linhan Cao, Yuqin Cao +7
The rapid proliferation of user-generated content (UGC) on short-form video platforms has made video engagement prediction increasingly important for optimizing recommendation syst…
Efficient Face Image Quality Assessment via Self-training and Knowledge Distillation
Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang, Linhan Cao +5
Face image quality assessment (FIQA) is essential for various face-related applications. Although FIQA has been extensively studied and achieved significant progress, the computati…
VQAThinker: Exploring Generalizable and Explainable Video Quality Assessment via Reinforcement Learning
Linhan Cao, Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang +6
Video quality assessment (VQA) aims to objectively quantify perceptual quality degradation in alignment with human visual perception. Despite recent advances, existing VQA models s…
CompressedVQA-HDR: Generalized Full-reference and No-reference Quality Assessment Models for Compressed High Dynamic Range Videos
Wei Sun, Linhan Cao, Kang Fu +5
Video compression is a standard procedure applied to all videos to minimize storage and transmission demands while preserving visual quality as much as possible. Therefore, evaluat…
ICME 2025 Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement Grand Challenge
Yixu Chen, Bowen Chen, Hai Wei +16
This paper reports IEEE International Conference on Multimedia \& Expo (ICME) 2025 Grand Challenge on Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement. With the rapid developmen…
Generalizable Video Quality Assessment via Weak-to-Strong Learning
Linhan Cao, Wei Sun, Xiangyang Zhu +6
Video quality assessment (VQA) seeks to predict the perceptual quality of a video in alignment with human visual perception, serving as a fundamental tool for quantifying quality d…
Assessing UHD Image Quality from Aesthetics, Distortions, and Saliency
Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang, Yuqin Cao +6
UHD images, typically with resolutions equal to or higher than 4K, pose a significant challenge for efficient image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms, as adopting full-resolution…
SG-JND: Semantic-Guided Just Noticeable Distortion Predictor For Image Compression
Linhan Cao, Wei Sun, Xiongkuo Min +8
Just noticeable distortion (JND), representing the threshold of distortion in an image that is minimally perceptible to the human visual system (HVS), is crucial for image compress…
Enhancing Blind Video Quality Assessment with Rich Quality-aware Features
Wei Sun, Linhan Cao, Jun Jia +4
Blind video quality assessment (BVQA) is a highly challenging task due to the intrinsic complexity of video content and visual distortions, especially given the high popularity of…