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Deep Aesthetic Quality Assessment With Semantic Information.

Yueying Kao, Ran He, Kaiqi Huang

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

|January 17, 2017

Summary

This study shows that understanding an image's meaning (semantic recognition) is key to automatically assessing its aesthetic quality. A multi-task deep learning model improved aesthetic assessment by learning from both aesthetic and semantic data.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning

Background:

Human image assessment involves both aesthetic quality and semantic content identification.
A gap exists in understanding the correlation between automatic aesthetic quality assessment and semantic recognition.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the correlation between automatic aesthetic quality assessment and semantic recognition.
To develop a multi-task deep learning framework that leverages semantic recognition to enhance aesthetic quality assessment.

Main Methods:

A single, simple multi-task deep learning framework based on convolutional neural networks was employed.
The framework utilized both aesthetic and semantic labels for supervision.
A correlation item was introduced to learn inter-task relationships and balance the two tasks.

Main Results:

Semantic recognition was validated as crucial for aesthetic quality assessment.
The multi-task deep model achieved state-of-the-art results on the Aesthetic Visual Analysis and Photo.net datasets.
The introduced correlation item improved the accuracy of aesthetic assessment.

Conclusions:

Integrating semantic recognition into aesthetic quality assessment significantly enhances performance.
Multi-task deep learning models can effectively discover aesthetic representations by incorporating semantic understanding.
The developed framework offers an efficient approach to joint aesthetic and semantic analysis of images.