arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

LLaVA-Assessor: Building the Foundation LMM For Visual Quality Assessment

LLaVA‑Assessor is a unified large multi‑modal model (LMM) designed for visual quality assessment, combining image and video inputs. It introduces a two‑task framework—quality interpretation and quality scoring—supported by an adaptive architecture, a rigorous human‑annotated dataset, and a machine‑synthesized data expansion pipeline. The model employs a prompt‑disentanglement strategy to stabilize multi‑task training and achieves strong performance across 11 quality scoring test sets and 4 interpretation benchmarks.

By Ziheng Jia, Zicheng Zhang, Jiaying Qian, Guangtao Zhai, Xiongkuo Min
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

PreResQ-R1: Response-Preference Disentangled Ranking-and-Scoring Reinforcement Optimization for Robust Visual Quality Assessment

PreResQ‑R1 introduces a Preference‑Response Disentangled Reinforcement Learning framework for Visual Quality Assessment that jointly optimizes absolute score regression and relative ranking consistency. It employs a dual‑branch reward system—modeling intra‑sample response coherence and inter‑sample preference alignment—trained with Group Relative Policy Optimization. The method extends to video quality assessment via a global‑temporal and local‑spatial data flow strategy, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on 10 IQA and 5 VQA benchmarks with only 6K images and 28K videos, and provides human‑aligned reasoning traces.

By Zehui Feng, Weichuan Wang, Xiaohan Chen, Ting Han
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

Redemption Score: A Multi-Modal Evaluation Framework for Image Captioning via Distributional, Perceptual, and Linguistic Signal Triangulation

The paper introduces Redemption Score (RS), a multi‑modal evaluation framework for image captioning that combines three complementary signals: Mutual Information Divergence for global image‑text alignment, DINO‑based perceptual similarity of cycle‑generated images for visual grounding, and LLM text embeddings for contextual similarity to human references. RS fuses these signals to provide a more holistic assessment, achieving a Kendall‑τ of 58.42 on Flickr8k and outperforming most prior methods. The framework demonstrates consistent performance across Conceptual Captions and MS COCO, offering a robust evaluation that captures both visual accuracy and text quality.

By Ashim Dahal, Ankit Ghimire, Saydul Akbar Murad, Nick Rahimi