Studying aesthetics in photographic images using a computational approach

Ritendra Datta, Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, James Z. Wang

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Abstract

Aesthetics, in the world of art and photography, refers to the principles of the nature and appreciation of beauty. Judging beauty and other aesthetic qualities of photographs is a highly subjective task. Hence, there is no unanimously agreed standard for measuring aesthetic value. In spite of the lack of firm rules, certain features in photographic images are believed, by many, to please humans more than certain others. In this paper, we treat the challenge of automatically inferring aesthetic quality of pictures using their visual content as a machine learning problem, with a peer-rated online photo sharing Website as data source. We extract certain visual features based on the intuition that they can discriminate between aesthetically pleasing and displeasing images. Automated classifiers are built using support vector machines and classification trees. Linear regression on polynomial terms of the features is also applied to infer numerical aesthetics ratings. The work attempts to explore the relationship between emotions which pictures arouse in people, and their low-level content. Potential applications include content-based image retrieval and digital photography.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ECCV 2006, 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
Pages288-301
Number of pages14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006 - Graz, Austria
Duration: May 7 2006May 13 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3953 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period5/7/065/13/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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