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HIFC-IQA: Train-Free Cross-Domain Image Quality Assessment via Dual-Process Cognition
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The gap between controlled synthetic distortions and complex real-world degradations introduces a critical domain shift challenge for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment. Although Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) approaches attempt to address this issue, they remain constrained by substantial retraining overhead and cumulative error propagation inherent in iterative pseudo-labeling. Inspired by the dual-process theory of human cognition for remarkable generalization ability, we propose Hierarchical Intuitive and Fuzzy Consensus (HIFC), a completely train-free Cross-Domain IQA framework. HIFC employs asymmetric perceptual decomposition to disentangle semantic content from distortion-sensitive representations. The final quality score is fused through the synergy of two complementary branches: a memory consensus branch that retrieves a stable Fuzzy Quality Centroid from a synthetic reference gallery, and an intuitive branch that captures aesthetic polarization via zero-shot vision-language alignment. Extensive experiments show that HIFC achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks, attaining the highest average SRCC and PLCC among competing UDA methods. Most notably, in the challenging synthetic-to-authentic cross-domain setting, HIFC achieves a substantial performance margin over competing methods, demonstrating remarkable robustness and generalization.
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HIFC-IQA: Train-Free Cross-Domain Image Quality Assessment via Dual-Process Cognition
The gap between controlled synthetic distortions and complex real-world degradations introduces a critical domain shift challenge for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment. Although Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) approaches attempt to address this issue, they remain constrained by substantial retraining overhead and cumulative error propagation inherent in iterative pseudo-labeling. Inspired by the dual-process theory of human cognition for remarkable generalization ability, we propose Hierarchical Intuitive and Fuzzy Consensus (HIFC), a completely train-free Cross-Domain IQA framework. HIFC employs asymmetric perceptual decomposition to disentangle semantic content from distortion-sensitive representations. The final quality score is fused through the synergy of two complementary branches: a memory consensus branch that retrieves a stable Fuzzy Quality Centroid from a synthetic reference gallery, and an intuitive branch that captures aesthetic polarization via zero-shot vision-language alignment. Extensive experiments show that HIFC achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks, attaining the highest average SRCC and PLCC among competing UDA methods. Most notably, in the challenging synthetic-to-authentic cross-domain setting, HIFC achieves a substantial performance margin over competing methods, demonstrating remarkable robustness and generalization.
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