Title
Learning to Compose with Professional Photographs on the Web.
Abstract
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 variety of photographic styles. Inspired by the thinking process of photo taking, we formulate the photo composition problem as a view finding process which successively examines pairs of views and determines their aesthetic preferences. We further exploit the rich professional photographs on the web to mine unlimited high-quality ranking samples and demonstrate that an aesthetics-aware deep ranking network can be trained without explicitly modeling any photographic rules. The resulting model is simple and effective in terms of its architectural design and data sampling method. It is also generic since it naturally learns any photographic rules implicitly encoded in professional photographs. The experiments show that the proposed view finding network achieves state-of-the-art performance with sliding window search strategy on two image cropping datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123266.3123274
MM '17: ACM Multimedia Conference Mountain View California USA October, 2017
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Photo composition, view recommendation, aesthetics modeling, deep ranking network
Conference
abs/1702.00503
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4906-2
13
0.55
References 
Authors
25
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-Ling Chen1211.70
Jan Klopp2132.24
Min Sun3108359.15
Shao-Yi Chien41603154.48
Kwan-Liu Ma55145334.46