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The List of the Participants of the Super-Resolution Quality Metrics Benchmark

Name Type* Order of
Increasing Quality **		 IQA/VQA Implementation Added By Year
PSNR FR Default IQA MSU VQMT MSU -
SSIM [Paper] FR Default IQA MSU VQMT MSU 2003
MS-SSIM [Paper] FR Default IQA MSU VQMT MSU 2004
NIMA [Paper] NR Default IQA Link MSU 2018
VMAF FR Default VQA MSU VQMT MSU 2017
DISTS [Paper] FR Inverse IQA Link MSU 2020
VSFA [Paper] NR Default VQA Link MSU 2019
LPIPS [Paper] FR Inverse IQA Link MSU 2018
ERQA [Paper] FR Default IQA Link MSU 2021
Linearity [Paper] NR Default IQA Link MSU 2020
MANIQA [Paper] FR Default IQA Link MSU 2022
PaQ-2-PiQ [Paper] NR Default IQA Link MSU 2020
PieAPP [Paper] FR Inverse IQA Link MSU 2018
MDTVSFA [Paper] NR Default VQA Link MSU 2021
NIQE [Paper] NR Inverse IQA MSU VQMT MSU 2012
AHIQ [Paper] FR Default IQA Link MSU 2022
BRISQUE [Paper] NR Inverse IQA Link (Unofficial) MSU 2012
FSIM [Paper] FR Default IQA Link (Unofficial) MSU 2011
Q-Align [Paper] NR Default IQA / VQA Link 1
Link 2		 MSU 2024
LIQE [Paper] FR Default IQA Link
Link (Unofficial)		 MSU 2023
HyperIQA [Paper] NR Default IQA Link MSU 2020
DBCNN [Paper] NR Default IQA Link 1
Link 2 (Unoffcial)		 MSU 2019
VIF FR Default IQA Link (Unofficial) MSU 2006
IL-NIQE [Paper] NR Inverse IQA Link MSU 2015
ST-LPIPS [Paper] FR Inverse IQA Link MSU 2022
TReS [Paper] NR Default IQA Link 1
Link 2 (Unofficial)		 MSU 2022
MUSIQ [Paper] NR Default IQA Link 1
Link 2 (Unofficial)		 MSU 2021
TOPIQ [Paper] FR/NR Default IQA Link MSU 2023

* "FR" — Full Reference, "NR" — No Reference
** "Default" means that a larger value corresponds to a better quality, "Inverse" means that a larger value corresponds to a worse quality
29 Dec 2025
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