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Measuring the colorfulness of a natural or virtual scene is critical for many applications in image processing field ranging from capturing to display. In this paper, we propose the first deep learning-based colorfulness estimation metric.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Emin Zerman , Aakanksha Rana , Aljosa Smolic

Recommendation algorithms typically build models based on historical user-item interactions (e.g., clicks, likes, or ratings) to provide a personalized ranked list of items. These interactions are often distributed unevenly over different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Ziwei Zhu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Image aesthetic assessment (IAA) evaluates image aesthetics, a task complicated by image diversity and user subjectivity. Current approaches address this in two stages: Generic IAA (GIAA) models estimate mean aesthetic scores, while…

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Machine Learning's proliferation in critical fields such as healthcare, banking, and criminal justice has motivated the creation of tools which ensure trust and transparency in ML models. One such tool is Actionable Recourse (AR) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jayanth Yetukuri , Ian Hardy , Yang Liu

In sequential recommendation, models recommend items based on user's interaction history. To this end, current models usually incorporate information such as item descriptions and user intent or preferences. User preferences are usually not…

Online retailers often offer a vast choice of products to their customers to filter and browse through. The order in which the products are listed depends on the ranking algorithm employed in the online shop. State-of-the-art ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Andrea Papenmeier , Daniel Hienert , Firas Sabbah , Norbert Fuhr , Dagmar Kern

The goal of research in automatic image popularity assessment (IPA) is to develop computational models that can accurately predict the potential of a social image to go viral on the Internet. Here, we aim to single out the contribution of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang

Modeling users for the purpose of identifying their preferences and then personalizing services on the basis of these models is a complex task, primarily due to the need to take into consideration various explicit and implicit signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Amit Tiroshi , Tsvi Kuflik , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models (VLMs). These agents make visual decisions at scale, deciding what to click, recommend, or buy. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Manuel Cherep , Pranav M R , Pattie Maes , Nikhil Singh

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) based on human subjective preferences has undergone extensive research in the past decades. However, with the development of communication protocols, the visual data consumption volume of machines has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chunyi Li , Yuan Tian , Xiaoyue Ling , Zicheng Zhang , Haodong Duan , Haoning Wu , Ziheng Jia , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guo Lu , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Most of the existing recommender systems use the ratings provided by users on individual items. An additional source of preference information is to use the ratings that users provide on sets of items. The advantages of using preferences on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohit Sharma , F. Maxwell Harper , George Karypis

Digital portrait photographs are everywhere, and while the number of face pictures keeps growing, not much work has been done to on automatic portrait beauty assessment. In this paper, we design a specific framework to automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Miriam Redi , Nikhil Rasiwasia , Gaurav Aggarwal , Alejandro Jaimes

Over-aligning image generation models to a generalized aesthetic preference conflicts with user intent, particularly when "anti-aesthetic" outputs are requested for artistic or critical purposes. This adherence prioritizes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wenqi Marshall Guo , Qingyun Qian , Khalad Hasan , Shan Du

The content based image retrieval aims to find the similar images from a large scale dataset against a query image. Generally, the similarity between the representative features of the query image and dataset images is used to rank the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Shiv Ram Dubey

Visual design is associated with the use of some basic design elements and principles. Those are applied by the designers in the various disciplines for aesthetic purposes, relying on an intuitive and subjective process. Thus, numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Gozdenur Demir , Asli Cekmis , Vahit Bugra Yesilkaynak , Gozde Unal

An image is a very effective tool for conveying emotions. Many researchers have investigated in computing the image emotions by using various features extracted from images. In this paper, we focus on two high level features, the object and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Hye-Rin Kim , Yeong-Seok Kim , Seon Joo Kim , In-Kwon Lee

Modeling human aesthetic judgments in visual art presents significant challenges due to individual preference variability and the high cost of obtaining labeled data. To reduce cost of acquiring such labels, we propose to apply a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Manoj Reddy Bethi , Sai Rupa Jhade , Pravallika Yaganti , Monoshiz Mahbub Khan , Zhe Yu

The concept of beauty has been debated by philosophers and psychologists for centuries, but most definitions are subjective and metaphysical, and deficit in accuracy, generality, and scalability. In this paper, we present a novel study on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Xudong Liu , Tao Li , Hao Peng , Iris Chuoying Ouyang , Taehwan Kim , Ruizhe Wang

In order to improve the accuracy of recommendations, many recommender systems nowadays use side information beyond the user rating matrix, such as item content. These systems build user profiles as estimates of users' interest on content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Luca Luciano Costanzo , Yashar Deldjoo , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Markus Schedl , Paolo Cremonesi

Although we have seen a proliferation of algorithms for recommending visualizations, these algorithms are rarely compared with one another, making it difficult to ascertain which algorithm is best for a given visual analysis scenario.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zehua Zeng , Phoebe Moh , Fan Du , Jane Hoffswell , Tak Yeon Lee , Sana Malik , Eunyee Koh , Leilani Battle