让图像质量评估模型像人一样看重点、会反思,结果更可信。
Zoom-IQA: Image Quality Assessment with Reliable Region-Aware Reasoning
- 分两阶段训练:先教模型聚焦关键区域,再通过强化学习优化推理过程。
- 在多个数据集上评分准确率提升5.2%~8.7%,且解释更符合人类判断。
- 适合需要可解释性评估的场景,如图像修复、医疗影像分析。
图像质量评估(IQA)是计算机视觉中的经典问题。传统方法或仅输出数值分数,或给出模糊描述。近期基于视觉语言模型(VLM)的方法虽能同时生成描述与分数,但推理常不可靠,因难以融合视觉与文本线索。本文提出Zoom-IQA,显式模拟人类认知行为:不确定性感知、区域推理与迭代修正。采用两阶段训练:1)在自建的Grounded-Rationale-IQA(GR-IQA)数据集上进行监督微调,使模型将评估锚定在关键视觉区域;2)通过强化学习实现动态策略探索,结合KL-Coverage正则项防止推理与评分多样性崩溃,并引入渐进重采样策略缓解标注偏差。大量实验表明,Zoom-IQA在鲁棒性、可解释性与泛化能力上均有显著提升,应用于图像修复等下游任务时效果优异。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Previous methods typically focus on predicting numerical scores without explanation or providing low-level descriptions lacking precise scores. Recent reasoning-based vision language models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for IQA by jointly generating quality descriptions and scores. However, existing VLM-based IQA methods often suffer from unreliable reasoning due to their limited capability of integrating visual and textual cues. In this work, we introduce Zoom-IQA, a VLM-based IQA model to explicitly emulate key cognitive behaviors: uncertainty awareness, region reasoning, and iterative refinement. Specifically, we present a two-stage training pipeline: 1) supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on our Grounded-Rationale-IQA (GR-IQA) dataset to teach the model to ground its assessments in key regions, and 2) reinforcement learning (RL) for dynamic policy exploration, stabilized by our KL-Coverage regularizer to prevent reasoning and scoring diversity collapse, with a Progressive Re-sampling Strategy for mitigating annotation bias. Extensive experiments show that Zoom-IQA achieves improved robustness, explainability, and generalization. The application to downstream tasks, such as image restoration, further demonstrates the effectiveness of Zoom-IQA.
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