2026
Beyond Cosine Similarity: Magnitude-Aware CLIP for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
AAAI 2026technical
Recent efforts have repurposed the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) by measuring the cosine similarity between the image embedding and textual prompts such as "a good photo" or "a bad photo." However, this semantic similarity ove