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Automatic Image Cropping is a challenging task with many practical downstream applications. The task is often divided into sub-problems - generating cropping candidates, finding the visually important regions, and determining aesthetics to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Casper Christensen , Aneesh Vartakavi

Evaluating aesthetic value of digital photographs is a challenging task, mainly due to numerous factors that need to be taken into account and subjective manner of this process. In this paper, we propose to approach this problem using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Maciej Suchecki , Tomasz Trzcinski

We investigate a novel approach for image restoration by reinforcement learning. Unlike existing studies that mostly train a single large network for a specialized task, we prepare a toolbox consisting of small-scale convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Ke Yu , Chao Dong , Liang Lin , Chen Change Loy

Distinguishing between computer-generated (CG) and natural photographic (PG) images is of great importance to verify the authenticity and originality of digital images. However, the recent cutting-edge generation methods enable high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Qiang Xu , Shan Jia , Xinghao Jiang , Tanfeng Sun , Zhe Wang , Hong Yan

This paper tackles unpaired image enhancement, a task of learning a mapping function which transforms input images into enhanced images in the absence of input-output image pairs. Our method is based on generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki

In recent years, image generation has made great strides in improving the quality of images, producing high-fidelity ones. Also, quite recently, there are architecture designs, which enable GAN to unsupervisedly learn the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Xin Jin , Shu Zhao , Le Zhang , Xin Zhao , Qiang Deng , Chaoen Xiao

Convolutional neural networks rely on image texture and structure to serve as discriminative features to classify the image content. Image enhancement techniques can be used as preprocessing steps to help improve the overall image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Davy Neven , Michael S. Brown , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Image classification has been a popular task due to its feasibility in real-world applications. Training neural networks by feeding them RGB images has demonstrated success over it. Nevertheless, improving the classification accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tianhao Bu , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

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

Professional-grade software applications are powerful but complicated$-$expert users can achieve impressive results, but novices often struggle to complete even basic tasks. Photo editing is a prime example: after loading a photo, the user…

Recent advances in text-to-image generation have produced strong single-shot models, yet no individual system reliably executes the long, compositional prompts typical of creative workflows. We introduce Image-POSER, a reflective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hossein Mohebbi , Mohammed Abdulrahman , Yanting Miao , Pascal Poupart , Suraj Kothawade

Automatic photo cropping is an important tool for improving visual quality of digital photos without resorting to tedious manual selection. Traditionally, photo cropping is accomplished by determining the best proposal window through visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Yi-Ling Chen , Tzu-Wei Huang , Kai-Han Chang , Yu-Chen Tsai , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Bing-Yu Chen

Real-world applications could benefit from the ability to automatically retarget an image to different aspect ratios and resolutions, while preserving its visually and semantically important content. However, not all images can be equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Yiping Meng , Chongyang Ma , Fuzhang Wu , Xinrui Li , Tong-Yee Lee

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

Following the rapidly growing digital image usage, automatic image categorization has become preeminent research area. It has broaden and adopted many algorithms from time to time, whereby multi-feature (generally, hand-engineered features)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Thangarajah Akilan , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Wei Jiang

Despite recent progress, computational visual aesthetic is still challenging. Image cropping, which refers to the removal of unwanted scene areas, is an important step to improve the aesthetic quality of an image. However, it is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Guanjun Guo , Hanzi Wang , Chunhua Shen , Yan Yan , Hong-Yuan Mark Liao

Deep models have been widely and successfully used in image manipulation detection, which aims to classify tampered images and localize tampered regions. Most existing methods mainly focus on extracting global features from tampered images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yuyuan Zeng , Bowen Zhao , Shanzhao Qiu , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Shu Kong , Xiaohui Shen , Zhe Lin , Radomir Mech , Charless Fowlkes

The use of computational methods to evaluate aesthetics in photography has gained interest in recent years due to the popularization of convolutional neural networks and the availability of new annotated datasets. Most studies in this area…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Carlos Rodríguez-Pardo , Hakan Bilen