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Photo aesthetic quality assessment via label distribution learning

  • Xiaowei Zhang
  • , Fei Gao
  • , Di Huang
  • , Min Tan
  • , Jun Yu

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Abstract

Automatic prediction of photo aesthetic quality is useful for many practical purposes. Current computational approaches typically solved this problem by assigning a categorical label (good or bad) to a photo. However, due to the subjectivity and complexity of humans aesthetic judgments, only a categorical label is insufficient to represent humans perceived aesthetic quality of a photo. This paper focuses on an interesting problem: is it possible to predict the crowed opinions about the aesthetic quality of a photo? The crowed opinion here is expressed by the distribution of scores given by a number of subjects. For each given photo, a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is utilized to calculate its feature representation. Afterwards, the crowed opinion prediction problem is formulated as one of label distribution learning (LDL). Experiments show that the proposed method is highly effective and outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1467-1470
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509018970
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Feb 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 9 Oct 201612 Oct 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period9/10/1612/10/16

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural network
  • Deep learning
  • Label distribution learning
  • Label distribution support regressor
  • Photo quality assessment

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