Evaluating Visual Aesthetics in Photographic Portraiture

Khan, Shehroz S.; Vogel, Daniel

Evaluating Visual Aesthetics in Photographic Portraiture

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Date

2012

Authors

Khan, Shehroz S.
Vogel, Daniel

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a strategy to quantify aesthetic quality in photographs. Our approach is to develop a small set of classification features by tuning general compositional principles to a targeted image domain where saliency can be better understood. We demonstrate this strategy with photographic portraits of individuals, but it can be extended to other domains. Our technique leverages a refined method of using templates as spatial composition feature look-up tables. Compared to the traditional approach using a large set of global and local features extracted with little salient knowledge, classifiers using features extracted with our approach are better predictors of human aesthetic judgments.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH12/055-062
,
booktitle = {Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
},
editor = {Douglas Cunningham and Donald House
},
title = {{Evaluating Visual Aesthetics in Photographic Portraiture
}},
author = {Khan, Shehroz S. and 
Vogel, Daniel
},
year = {2012
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1816-0859
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-43-9
},
DOI = {/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH12/055-062
}
}