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The aesthetic quality of a scene depends strongly on camera viewpoint. Existing approaches for aesthetic viewpoint suggestion are either single-view adjustments, predicting limited camera adjustments from a single image without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sheyang Tang , Armin Shafiee Sarvestani , Jialu Xu , Xiaoyu Xu , Zhou Wang

The process of capturing a well-composed photo is difficult and it takes years of experience to master. We propose a novel pipeline for an autonomous agent to automatically capture an aesthetic photograph by navigating within a local region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Hadi AlZayer , Hubert Lin , Kavita Bala

Image collage is a very useful tool for visualizing an image collection. Most of the existing methods and commercial applications for generating image collages are designed on simple shapes, such as rectangular and circular layouts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Dong-Yi Wu , Thi-Ngoc-Hanh Le , Sheng-Yi Yao , Yun-Chen Lin , Tong-Yee Lee

We introduce EnhanceGAN, an adversarial learning based model that performs automatic image enhancement. Traditional image enhancement frameworks typically involve training models in a fully-supervised manner, which require expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Automatic image cropping is a method for maximizing the human-perceived quality of cropped regions in photographs. Although several works have proposed techniques for producing singular crops, little work has addressed the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Rafe Loya , Andrew Hamara , Benjamin Estell , Benjamin Kilpatrick , Andrew C. Freeman

Image cropping has progressed tremendously under the data-driven paradigm. However, current approaches do not account for the intentions of the user, which is an issue especially when the composition of the input image is complex. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zhihang Zhong , Mingxi Cheng , Zhirong Wu , Yuhui Yuan , Yinqiang Zheng , Ji Li , Han Hu , Stephen Lin , Yoichi Sato , Imari Sato

We present a method for performing hierarchical object detection in images guided by a deep reinforcement learning agent. The key idea is to focus on those parts of the image that contain richer information and zoom on them. We train an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Miriam Bellver , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Ferran Marques , Jordi Torres

Image cropping aims to find visually appealing crops in an image, which is an important yet challenging task. In this paper, we consider a specific and practical application: human-centric image cropping, which focuses on the depiction of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bo Zhang , Li Niu , Xing Zhao , Liqing Zhang

Multi-dimensional data streams, prevalent in applications like IoT, financial markets, and real-time analytics, pose significant challenges due to their high velocity, unbounded nature, and complex inter-dimensional dependencies. Sliding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Abolfazl Zarghani , Sadegh Abedi

Aesthetic assessment is subjective, and the distribution of the aesthetic levels is imbalanced. In order to realize the auto-assessment of photo aesthetics, we focus on using repetitive self-revised learning (RSRL) to train the CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Ying Dai

This survey aims at reviewing recent computer vision techniques used in the assessment of image aesthetic quality. Image aesthetic assessment aims at computationally distinguishing high-quality photos from low-quality ones based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empowered Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to achieve superior human preference alignment in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, existing RL-based IQA models typically rely on coarse-grained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Xiang Li , Xueheng Li , Yu Wang , Xuanhua He , Zhangchi Hu , Weiwei Yu , Chengjun Xie

Computational visual aesthetics has recently become an active research area. Existing state-of-art methods formulate this as a binary classification task where a given image is predicted to be beautiful or not. In many applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Parag S. Chandakkar , Vijetha Gattupalli , Baoxin Li

Non-photorealistic rendering techniques work on image features and often manipulate a set of characteristics such as edges and texture to achieve a desired depiction of the scene. Most computational photography methods decompose an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Akshay Gadi Patil , Shanmuganathan Raman

Instruction-driven image editing with unified multimodal generative models has advanced rapidly, yet their underlying visual reasoning remains limited, leading to suboptimal performance on reasoning-centric edits. Reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hengjia Li , Liming Jiang , Qing Yan , Yizhi Song , Hao Kang , Zichuan Liu , Xin Lu , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai

Aesthetic assessment is subjective, and the distribution of the aesthetic levels is imbalanced. In order to realize the auto-assessment of photo aesthetics, we focus on retraining the CNN-based aesthetic assessment model by dropping out the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Ying Dai

With the rapid advancement of commercial multi-modal models, image editing has garnered significant attention due to its widespread applicability in daily life. Despite impressive progress, existing image editing systems, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yiran Zhao , Yaoqi Ye , Xiang Liu , Michael Qizhe Shieh , Trung Bui

Image cropping aims to improve the composition as well as aesthetic quality of an image by removing extraneous content from it. Existing image cropping databases provide only one or several human-annotated bounding boxes as the groundtruth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Hui Zeng , Lida Li , Zisheng Cao , Lei Zhang

Automatic image cropping algorithms aim to recompose images like human-being photographers by generating the cropping boxes with improved composition quality. Cropping box regression approaches learn the beauty of composition from annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Zhiyu Pan , Yinpeng Chen , Jiale Zhang , Hao Lu , Zhiguo Cao , Weicai Zhong

Aesthetic quality assessment (AQA) is a challenging task due to complex aesthetic factors. Currently, it is common to conduct AQA using deep neural networks that require fixed-size inputs. Existing methods mainly transform images by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Gengyun Jia , Peipei Li , Ran He