Visual Distortion Detection in UGC Images Using Large Multimodal Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09122v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:00:12 GMT
• Title: Visual Distortion Detection in UGC Images Using Large Multimodal Models
• Abstract summary: We propose textbftextitVIGIL, which leverages the large language model (LLM) architecture for precise visual distortion detection.<n>Our model consistently outperforms strong baselines on both in-domain synthetic distortion detection and textitS2A tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The localized depiction of perceptual quality has long been a crucial, yet underexplored, challenge in image quality assessment (IQA). Existing approaches based on large multimodal models (LMMs) predominantly rely on text-driven supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, this training paradigm exhibits notable limitations in detection accuracy. Moreover, synthetically distorted images, which are often used as the primary training data source, show a significant generalization gap when deployed in real-world scenarios; thus, the \textbf{synthetic-to-authentic (\textit{S2A})} problem represents a critical challenge. Motivated by these issues, we propose \textbf{\textit{VIGIL}}, which leverages the LMM architecture for precise visual distortion detection. From a candidate pool of over 1000K samples, we construct the \textbf{\textit{VIGIL-140K}} training set, which consists of over 140K distorted images. These images are obtained through rigorous quality filtering and carefully crafted distortion injection, covering 8 major synthetic distortion categories. Our model leverages different layers of the large language model (LLM) decoder, treating them as \textit{multiple detectors} that perform synchronous distortion detection using multi-level features. Additionally, we retain distortion cues from predictions assigned to the non-distortion class, which helps mitigate the ambiguous foreground-background (\textit{FG-BG}) separation commonly encountered in the \textit{S2A} problem. After post-processing, our model consistently outperforms strong baselines on both in-domain synthetic distortion detection and \textit{S2A} tasks.

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