NovisVQ: A Streaming Convolutional Neural Network for No-Reference Opinion-Unaware Frame Quality Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04628v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:23:55 GMT
• Title: NovisVQ: A Streaming Convolutional Neural Network for No-Reference Opinion-Unaware Frame Quality Assessment
• Authors: Kylie Cancilla, Alexander Moore, Amar Saini, Carmen Carrano,
• Abstract summary: Video quality assessment (VQA) is vital for computer vision tasks, but existing approaches face major limitations.<n>We present a scalable, streaming-based VQA model that is both no-reference and opinion-unaware.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Video quality assessment (VQA) is vital for computer vision tasks, but existing approaches face major limitations: full-reference (FR) metrics require clean reference videos, and most no-reference (NR) models depend on training on costly human opinion labels. Moreover, most opinion-unaware NR methods are image-based, ignoring temporal context critical for video object detection. In this work, we present a scalable, streaming-based VQA model that is both no-reference and opinion-unaware. Our model leverages synthetic degradations of the DAVIS dataset, training a temporal-aware convolutional architecture to predict FR metrics (LPIPS , PSNR, SSIM) directly from degraded video, without references at inference. We show that our streaming approach outperforms our own image-based baseline by generalizing across diverse degradations, underscoring the value of temporal modeling for scalable VQA in real-world vision systems. Additionally, we demonstrate that our model achieves higher correlation with full-reference metrics compared to BRISQUE, a widely-used opinion-aware image quality assessment baseline, validating the effectiveness of our temporal, opinion-unaware approach.

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