arXiv AI By Yuan li, Youyuan Lin, Chenhui Chu, Shin'ya Nishida

MR-IQA-2: Faithful Image Quality Reflection via Fine-Grained Credit Assignment

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MR‑IQA‑2 introduces an actor‑editor‑judge framework that separates reasoning from rating in image quality assessment. The actor generates quality reasoning, the editor modifies the image based on identified factors, and a frozen judge compares the original and edited images to provide reflective supervision. Fine‑grained credit assignment allows distinct supervision signals for reasoning and rating, achieving competitive human‑aligned ratings while offering richer, faithful visual understanding.

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