Title
High level describable attributes for predicting aesthetics and interestingness
Abstract
With the rise in popularity of digital cameras, the amount of visual data available on the web is growing exponentially. Some of these pictures are extremely beautiful and aesthetically pleasing, but the vast majority are uninteresting or of low quality. This paper demonstrates a simple, yet powerful method to automatically select high aesthetic quality images from large image collections. Our aesthetic quality estimation method explicitly predicts some of the possible image cues that a human might use to evaluate an image and then uses them in a discriminative approach. These cues or high level describable image attributes fall into three broad types: 1) compositional attributes related to image layout or configuration, 2) content attributes related to the objects or scene types depicted, and 3) sky-illumination attributes related to the natural lighting conditions. We demonstrate that an aesthetics classifier trained on these describable attributes can provide a significant improvement over baseline methods for predicting human quality judgments. We also demonstrate our method for predicting the “interestingness” of Flickr photos, and introduce a novel problem of estimating query specific “interestingness”.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995467
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,cameras,image processing,philosophical aspects,query processing,Flickr photo,aesthetic quality estimation,aesthetics prediction,baseline method,digital camera,high level describable attribute,human quality judgment,image collection,natural lighting condition,query estimation,sky-illumination attribute,visual data
Aesthetics,Computer vision,Computer science,Popularity,Image processing,Digital camera,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Discriminative model,The Internet
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2011
1
1063-6919
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-0394-2
197
6.61
References 
Authors
16
3
Search Limit
100197
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dhar, S.11976.61
Vicente Ordonez2141869.65
Tamara L. Berg33221225.32