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This paper proposes a hypothesis for the aesthetic appreciation that aesthetic images make a neural network strengthen salient concepts and discard inessential concepts. In order to verify this hypothesis, we use multi-variate interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Xu Cheng , Xin Wang , Haotian Xue , Zhengyang Liang , Quanshi Zhang

Image Aesthetics Assessment is one of the emerging domains in research. The domain deals with classification of images into categories depending on the basis of how pleasant they are for the users to watch. In this article, the focus is on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nishi Doshi , Gitam Shikhenawis , Suman K Mitra

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

We revisit the long-standing question of the relation between image appreciation and its statistical properties. We generate two different sets of random images well distributed along three measures of entropic complexity. We run a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Samy Lakhal , Alexandre Darmon , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Michael Benzaquen

Image aesthetic assessment (IAA) aims to predict the aesthetic quality of images as perceived by humans. While recent IAA models achieve strong predictive performance, they offer little insight into the factors driving their predictions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiao-Chang Liu , Johan Wagemans

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

Accurately predicting individual aesthetic evaluation for images is a fundamental challenge for AI. Various deep learning (DL)-based models have been proposed for this task, training on image evaluation data to extract objective low-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yoshia Abe , Tatsuya Daikoku , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

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

When assessing whether an image is of high or low quality, it is indispensable to take personal preference into account. Existing aesthetic models lay emphasis on hand-crafted features or deep features commonly shared by high quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Pei Lv , Meng Wang , Yongbo Xu , Ze Peng , Junyi Sun , Shimei Su , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu

Previous work in aesthetic categorization and explainability utilizes manual labeling and classification to explain aesthetic scores. These methods require a complex labeling process and are limited in size. Our proposed approach attempts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Max Lisaius , Scott Wehrwein

Image aesthetic quality assessment is popular during the last decade. Besides numerical assessment, nature language assessment (aesthetic captioning) has been proposed to describe the generally aesthetic impression of an image. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Xinghui Zhou , Xin Jin , Jianwen Lv , Heng Huang , Ming Mao , Shuai Cui

Aesthetic assessment of images can be categorized into two main forms: numerical assessment and language assessment. Aesthetics caption of photographs is the only task of aesthetic language assessment that has been addressed. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xin Jin , Wu Zhou , Xinghui Zhou , Shuai Cui , Le Zhang , Jianwen Lv , Shu Zhao

Deep convolutional neural networks have recently achieved great success on image aesthetics assessment task. In this paper, we propose an efficient method which takes the global, local and scene-aware information of images into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Xin Fu , Jia Yan , Cien Fan

How to robustly rank the aesthetic quality of given images has been a long-standing ill-posed topic. Such challenge stems mainly from the diverse subjective opinions of different observers about the varied types of content. There is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Suiyi Ling , Andreas Pastor , Junle Wang , Patrick Le Callet

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

Quantifying image complexity at the entity level is straightforward, but the assessment of semantic complexity has been largely overlooked. In fact, there are differences in semantic complexity across images. Images with richer semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiujie Song , Xiaoyi Pang , Haifeng Tang , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

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

The rapid expansion of mobile internet has resulted in a substantial increase in user-generated content (UGC) images, thereby making the thorough assessment of UGC images both urgent and essential. Recently, multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingxing Li , Rui Wang , Lei Sun , Yancheng Bai , Xiangxiang Chu

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…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Alexander Michael Rusnak

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are now routinely deployed for visual understanding, generation, and curation. A substantial fraction of these applications require an explicit aesthetic judgment. Most existing solutions reduce this…