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Artificial intelligence (AI), exemplified by large language models (LLMs), is rapidly approaching and in some cases surpassing human performance across a wide range of cognitive tasks. However, human nature is not limited to intelligence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yoshia Abe , Tatsuya Daikoku , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

We present a full reference, perceptual image metric based on VGG-16, an artificial neural network trained on object classification. We fit the metric to a new database based on 140k unique images annotated with ground truth by human raters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Troy Chinen , Johannes Ballé , Chunhui Gu , Sung Jin Hwang , Sergey Ioffe , Nick Johnston , Thomas Leung , David Minnen , Sean O'Malley , Charles Rosenberg , George Toderici

Can we generate abstract aesthetic images without bias from natural or human selected image corpi? Are aesthetic images singled out in their correlation functions? In this paper we give answers to these and more questions. We generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Sina Khajehabdollahi , Georg Martius , Anna Levina

Photo composition is an important factor affecting the aesthetics in photography. However, it is a highly challenging task to model the aesthetic properties of good compositions due to the lack of globally applicable rules to the wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yi-Ling Chen , Jan Klopp , Min Sun , Shao-Yi Chien , Kwan-Liu Ma

Image aesthetics assessment has been challenging due to its subjective nature. Inspired by the scientific advances in the human visual perception and neuroaesthetics, we design Brain-Inspired Deep Networks (BDN) for this task. BDN first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Zhangyang Wang , Shiyu Chang , Florin Dolcos , Diane Beck , Ding Liu , Thomas S. Huang

Most publicly available image quality databases have been created under highly controlled conditions by introducing graded simulated distortions onto high-quality photographs. However, images captured using typical real-world mobile camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Deepti Ghadiyaram , Alan C. Bovik

Computer vision systems are designed to work well within the context of everyday photography. However, artists often render the world around them in ways that do not resemble photographs. Artwork produced by people is not constrained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Michael J. Wilber , Chen Fang , Hailin Jin , Aaron Hertzmann , John Collomosse , Serge Belongie

We introduce a new large-scale dataset that links the assessment of image quality issues to two practical vision tasks: image captioning and visual question answering. First, we identify for 39,181 images taken by people who are blind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tai-Yin Chiu , Yinan Zhao , Danna Gurari

The contextual information of Web images is investigated to address the issue of enriching their index characterizations with semantic descriptors and therefore bridge the semantic gap (i.e. the gap between the low-level content-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Fariza Fauzi , Mohammed Belkhatir

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 performance of image generation has been significantly improved in recent years. However, the study of image screening is rare and its performance with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is unsatisfactory due to the lack of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhiyuan Hu , Zheng Sun , Yi Wei , Long Yu

Subjective image quality databases are a major source of raw data on how the visual system works in naturalistic environments. These databases describe the sensitivity of many observers to a wide range of distortions (of different nature…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-30 Marina Martinez-Garcia , Marcelo Bertalmío , Jesús Malo

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

Psychological research results have confirmed that people can have different emotional reactions to different visual stimuli. Several papers have been published on the problem of visual emotion analysis. In particular, attempts have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Quanzeng You , Jiebo Luo , Hailin Jin , Jianchao Yang

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

The spread of social networking services has created an increasing demand for selecting, editing, and generating impressive images. This trend increases the importance of evaluating image aesthetics as a complementary function of automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Lijie Wang , Xueting Wang , Toshihiko Yamasaki

There is an increasing requirement for efficient image retargeting techniques to adapt the content to various forms of digital media. With rapid growth of mobile communications and dynamic web page layouts, one often needs to resize the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Sukrit Shankar , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Image aesthetic assessment (IAA) has extensive applications in content creation, album management, and recommendation systems, etc. In such applications, it is commonly needed to pick out the most aesthetically pleasing image from a series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhichao Yang , Jianjie Wang , Zhixianhe Zhang , Pangu Xie , Xiangfei Sheng , Pengfei Chen , Leida Li

Automatic image aesthetics assessment is important for a wide variety of applications such as on-line photo suggestion, photo album management and image retrieval. Previous methods have focused on mapping the holistic image content to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Dong Liu , Rohit Puri , Nagendra Kamath , Subhabrata Bhattachary

An aesthetics evaluation model is at the heart of predicting users' aesthetic experience and developing user interfaces with higher quality. However, previous methods on aesthetic evaluation largely ignore the interpretability of the model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Xiaoran Wu