Towards category-based aesthetic models of photographs

  • Authors:
  • Pere Obrador;Michele A. Saad;Poonam Suryanarayan;Nuria Oliver

  • Affiliations:
  • Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain;University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;The Pennsylvania State University, PA;Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • MMM'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a novel data-driven category-based approach to automatically assess the aesthetic appeal of photographs. In order to tackle this problem, a novel set of image segmentation methods based on feature contrast are introduced, such that luminance , sharpness , saliency , color chroma , and a measure of region relevance are computed to generate different image partitions. Image aesthetic features are computed on these regions (e.g. sharpness , colorfulness , and a novel set of light exposure features). In addition, color harmony , image simplicity , and a novel set of image composition features are measured on the overall image. Support Vector Regression models are generated for each of 7 popular image categories: animals , architecture , cityscape , floral , landscape , portraiture and seascapes . These models are analyzed to understand which features have greater influence in each of those categories, and how they perform with respect to a generic state of the art model.