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Aesthetic image analysis is the study and assessment of the aesthetic properties of images. Current computational approaches to aesthetic image analysis either provide accurate or interpretable results. To obtain both accuracy and…

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What does it mean for a machine to recognize beauty? While beauty remains a culturally and experientially compelling but philosophically elusive concept, deep learning systems increasingly appear capable of modeling aesthetic judgment. In…

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Aspect ratio and spatial layout are two of the principal factors determining the aesthetic value of a photograph. But, incorporating these into the traditional convolution-based frameworks for the task of image aesthetics assessment is…

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Recently, it has been recognized that large language models demonstrate high performance on various intellectual tasks. However, few studies have investigated alignment with humans in behaviors that involve sensibility, such as aesthetic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yoshia Abe , Tatsuya Daikoku , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Rating how aesthetically pleasing an image appears is a highly complex matter and depends on a large number of different visual factors. Previous work has tackled the aesthetic rating problem by ranking on a 1-dimensional rating scale,…

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An Interactive Genetic Algorithm is proposed to progressively sketch the desired side-view of a car profile. It adopts a Fourier decomposition of a 2D profile as the genotype, and proposes a cross-over mechanism. In addition, a formula…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-22 François Cluzel , Bernard Yannou , Markus Dihlmann

Many aesthetic models in computer vision suffer from two shortcomings: 1) the low descriptiveness and interpretability of those hand-crafted aesthetic criteria (i.e., nonindicative of region-level aesthetics), and 2) the difficulty of…

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Color and tone stylization strives to enhance unique themes with artistic color and tone adjustments. It has a broad range of applications from professional image postprocessing to photo sharing over social networks. Mainstream photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Feida Zhu , Yizhou Yu

Machine learning based image classification algorithms, such as deep neural network approaches, will be increasingly employed in critical settings such as quality control in industry, where transparency and comprehensibility of decisions…

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Deep learning has brought an unprecedented progress in computer vision and significant advances have been made in predicting subjective properties inherent to visual data (e.g., memorability, aesthetic quality, evoked emotions, etc.).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Gloria Zen , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) is a vital and intricate task that entails analyzing and assessing an image's aesthetic values, and identifying its highlights and areas for improvement. Traditional methods of IAA often concentrate on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuti Liu , Shice Liu , Junyuan Gao , Pengtao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li

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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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

In the past decades, many graph drawing techniques have been proposed for generating aesthetically pleasing graph layouts. However, it remains a challenging task since different layout methods tend to highlight different characteristics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xiaoqi Wang , Kevin Yen , Yifan Hu , Han-Wei Shen

As AI systems increasingly shape decision making in creative design contexts, understanding how humans engage with these tools has become a critical challenge for interactive intelligent systems research. This paper contributes a challenge…

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In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Leon A. Gatys , Alexander S. Ecker , Matthias Bethge

Assessing image aesthetics is a challenging computer vision task. One reason is that aesthetic preference is highly subjective and may vary significantly among people for certain images. Thus, it is important to properly model and quantify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hyeongnam Jang , Yeejin Lee , Jong-Seok Lee

Real-world applications could benefit from the ability to automatically generate a fine-grained ranking of photo aesthetics. However, previous methods for image aesthetics analysis have primarily focused on the coarse, binary categorization…

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Data-efficient image classification is a challenging task that aims to solve image classification using small training data. Neural network-based deep learning methods are effective for image classification, but they typically require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ying Bi , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Evolutionary computation methods have been successfully applied to neural networks since two decades ago, while those methods cannot scale well to the modern deep neural networks due to the complicated architectures and large quantities of…

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