Comparison Drives Preference: Reference-Aware Modeling for AI-Generated Video Quality Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17074v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:21:53 GMT
• Title: Comparison Drives Preference: Reference-Aware Modeling for AI-Generated Video Quality Assessment
• Abstract summary: Existing AI-generated content video quality assessment (AIGC-VQA) methods estimate visual quality by analyzing each video independently.<n>In this work, we revisit AIGC-VQA from an inter-video perspective and formulate it as a reference-aware evaluation problem.<n>We propose RefVQA, which utilizes a query-centered reference graph to organize semantically related samples and performs graph-guided difference aggregation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative models has led to a growing volume of AI-generated videos, making the automatic quality assessment of such videos increasingly important. Existing AI-generated content video quality assessment (AIGC-VQA) methods typically estimate visual quality by analyzing each video independently, ignoring potential relationships among videos. In this work, we revisit AIGC-VQA from an inter-video perspective and formulate it as a reference-aware evaluation problem. Through this formulation, quality assessment is guided not only by intrinsic video characteristics but also by comparisons with related videos, which is more consistent with human perception. To validate its effectiveness, we propose Reference-aware Video Quality Assessment (RefVQA), which utilizes a query-centered reference graph to organize semantically related samples and performs graph-guided difference aggregation from the reference nodes to the query node. Experiments on existing datasets demonstrate that our proposed RefVQA outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple quality dimensions, with strong generalization ability validated by cross-dataset evaluation. These results highlight the effectiveness of the proposed reference-based formulation and suggest its potential to advance AIGC-VQA.

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