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Visualization, a domain-specific yet widely used form of imagery, is an effective way to turn complex datasets into intuitive insights, and its value depends on whether data are faithfully represented, clearly communicated, and…

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With the continuous development of social software and multimedia technology, images have become a kind of important carrier for spreading information and socializing. How to evaluate an image comprehensively has become the focus of recent…

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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…

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Over-aligning image generation models to a generalized aesthetic preference conflicts with user intent, particularly when "anti-aesthetic" outputs are requested for artistic or critical purposes. This adherence prioritizes…

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Researchers try to model the aesthetic quality of photographs into low and high- level features, drawing inspiration from art theory, psychology and marketing. We attempt to describe every feature extraction measure employed in the above…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Dimitris Spathis

Image aesthetic quality assessment (AQA) aims to assign numerical aesthetic ratings to images whilst image aesthetic captioning (IAC) aims to generate textual descriptions of the aesthetic aspects of images. In this paper, we study image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhipeng Zhong , Fei Zhou , Guoping Qiu

With collective endeavors, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are undergoing a flourishing development. However, their performances on image aesthetics perception remain indeterminate, which is highly desired in real-world…

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Training medical AI algorithms requires large volumes of accurately labeled datasets, which are difficult to obtain in the real world. Synthetic images generated from deep generative models can help alleviate the data scarcity problem, but…

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While natural beauty is often considered a subjective property of images, in this paper, we take an objective approach and provide methods for quantifying and predicting the scenicness of an image. Using a dataset containing hundreds of…

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Nowadays, social media has become a popular platform for the public to share photos. To make photos more visually appealing, users usually apply filters on their photos without domain knowledge. However, due to the growing number of filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Wei-Tse Sun , Ting-Hsuan Chao , Yin-Hsi Kuo , Winston H. Hsu

Computational aesthetics is an emerging field of research which has attracted different research groups in the last few years. In this field, one of the main approaches to evaluate the aesthetic quality of paintings and photographs is a…

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Image aesthetics assessment (IAA) aims to estimate the aesthetics of images. Depending on the content of an image, diverse criteria need to be selected to assess its aesthetics. Existing works utilize pre-trained vision backbones based on…

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This paper addresses the problem of semantic-based image retrieval of natural scenes. A typical content-based image retrieval system deals with the query image and images in the dataset as a collection of low-level features and retrieves a…

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Visual Sentiment Analysis (VSA) is a challenging task due to the vast diversity of emotionally salient images and the inherent difficulty of acquiring sufficient data to capture this variability comprehensively. Key obstacles include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Marco Blanchini , Giovanna Maria Dimitri , Benedetta Tondi , Tarcisio Lancioni , Mauro Barni

We propose an effective deep learning approach to aesthetics quality assessment that relies on a new type of pre-trained features, and apply it to the AVA data set, the currently largest aesthetics database. While previous approaches miss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Vlad Hosu , Bastian Goldlucke , Dietmar Saupe

It has long been hypothesized that perceptual ambiguities play an important role in aesthetic experience: a work with some ambiguity engages a viewer more than one that does not. However, current frameworks for testing this theory are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Xi Wang , Zoya Bylinskii , Aaron Hertzmann , Robert Pepperell

Perceiving and producing aesthetic judgments is a fundamental yet underexplored capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing benchmarks for image aesthetic assessment (IAA) are narrow in perception scope or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Guolong Wang , Heng Huang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Wentian Li , Feilong Ma , Xin Jin

We investigate the perceived visual complexity (VC) in data visualizations using objective image-based metrics. We collected VC scores through a large-scale crowdsourcing experiment involving 349 participants and 1,800 visualization images.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mengdi Chu , Zefeng Qiu , Meng Ling , Shuning Jiang , Robert S. Laramee , Michael Sedlmair , Jian Chen