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While the problem of image aesthetics has been well explored, the study of 3D shape aesthetics has focused on specific manually defined features. In this paper, we learn an aesthetics measure for 3D shapes autonomously from raw voxel data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Kapil Dev , Manfred Lau , Ligang Liu

Fabricating experimental pictures in research work is a serious academic misconduct, which should better be detected in the reviewing process. However, due to large number of submissions, the detection whether a picture is fabricated or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Binrui Shen , Qiang Niu , Shengxin Zhu

In the past few years, the number of fine-art collections that are digitized and publicly available has been growing rapidly. With the availability of such large collections of digitized artworks comes the need to develop multimedia systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Babak Saleh , Ahmed Elgammal

AI-based text-to-image models do not only excel at generating realistic images, they also give designers more and more fine-grained control over the image content. Consequently, these approaches have gathered increased attention within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Sebastian Hartwig , Dominik Engel , Leon Sick , Hannah Kniesel , Tristan Payer , Poonam Poonam , Michael Glöckler , Alex Bäuerle , Timo Ropinski

Automated evaluation of generative text-to-image models remains a challenging problem. Recent works have proposed using multimodal LLMs to judge the quality of images, but these works offer little insight into how multimodal LLMs make use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Rishab Parthasarathy , Jasmine Collins , Cory Stephenson

In computer vision, visual arts are often studied from a purely aesthetics perspective, mostly by analysing the visual appearance of an artistic reproduction to infer its style, its author, or its representative features. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Noa Garcia , Benjamin Renoust , Yuta Nakashima

While it is easy for human observers to judge an image as beautiful or ugly, aesthetic decisions result from a combination of entangled perceptual and cognitive (semantic) factors, making the understanding of aesthetic judgements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 C. Alejandro Parraga , Olivier Penacchio , Marcos Muňoz Gonzalez , Bogdan Raducanu , Xavier Otazu

Accurate evaluation of human aesthetic preferences represents a major challenge for creative evolutionary and generative systems research. Prior work has tended to focus on feature measures of the artefact, such as symmetry, complexity and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Jon McCormack , Andy Lomas

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

As it is said by Van Gogh, great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Aesthetic experience arises from the aggregation of underlying visual components. However, most existing deep image aesthetic assessment (IAA)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Jingwen Hou , Sheng Yang , Weisi Lin , Baoquan Zhao , Yuming Fang

Progress in lighting estimation is tracked by computing existing image quality assessment (IQA) metrics on images from standard datasets. While this may appear to be a reasonable approach, we demonstrate that doing so does not correlate to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Justine Giroux , Mohammad Reza Karimi Dastjerdi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean-François Lalonde

Assessing the aesthetic quality of graphic design is central to visual communication, yet remains underexplored in vision language models (VLMs). We investigate whether VLMs can evaluate design aesthetics in ways comparable to humans. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Arctanx An , Shizhao Sun , Danqing Huang , Mingxi Cheng , Yan Gao , Ji Li , Yu Qiao , Jiang Bian

We explore computational approaches for visual guidance to aid in creating aesthetically pleasing art and graphic design. Our work complements and builds on previous work that developed models for how humans look at images. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Qingyuan Zheng , Zhuoru Li , Adam Bargteil

Image matching approaches have been widely used in computer vision applications in which the image-level matching performance of matchers is critical. However, it has not been well investigated by previous works which place more emphases on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 JiaWang Bian , Le Zhang , Yun Liu , Wen-Yan Lin , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian D. Reid

Methods from computational topology are becoming more and more popular in computer vision and have shown to improve the state-of-the-art in several tasks. In this paper, we investigate the applicability of topological descriptors in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Matthias Zeppelzauer , Bartosz Zielinski , Mateusz Juda , Markus Seidl

Current perceptual similarity metrics operate at the level of pixels and patches. These metrics compare images in terms of their low-level colors and textures, but fail to capture mid-level similarities and differences in image layout,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Stephanie Fu , Netanel Tamir , Shobhita Sundaram , Lucy Chai , Richard Zhang , Tali Dekel , Phillip Isola

Image aesthetics has become an important criterion for visual content curation on social media sites and media content repositories. Previous work on aesthetic prediction models in the computer vision community has focused on aesthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Naila Murray , Albert Gordo

The aesthetic quality assessment task is crucial for developing a human-aligned quantitative evaluation system for AIGC. However, its inherently complex nature, spanning visual perception, cognition, and emotion, poses fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Henglin Liu , Nisha Huang , Chang Liu , Jiangpeng Yan , Huijuan Huang , Jixuan Ying , Tong-Yee Lee , Pengfei Wan , Xiangyang Ji

As people's aesthetic preferences for images are far from understood, image aesthetic assessment is a challenging artificial intelligence task. The range of factors underlying this task is almost unlimited, but we know that some aesthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Derya Soydaner , Johan Wagemans

As a result of continuing advances in computer capabilities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between humans and computers in the digital world. We propose using the fundamental human ability to distinguish between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Nasser Mohammed Al-Fannah