The unreasonable effectiveness of deep features as a perceptual metric

R Zhang, P Isola, AA Efros… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
While it is nearly effortless for humans to quickly assess the perceptual similarity between
two images, the underlying processes are thought to be quite complex. Despite this, the …

NIMA: Neural image assessment

H Talebi, P Milanfar - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatically learned quality assessment for images has recently become a hot topic due to
its usefulness in a wide variety of applications, such as evaluating image capture pipelines …

A deep network solution for attention and aesthetics aware photo cropping

W Wang, J Shen, H Ling - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of photo cropping, which aims to find a cropping window of an input
image to preserve as much as possible its important parts while being aesthetically …

Distort-and-recover: Color enhancement using deep reinforcement learning

J Park, JY Lee, D Yoo… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Learning-based color enhancement approaches typically learn to map from input images to
retouched images. Most of existing methods require expensive pairs of input-retouched …

Aesthetic-based clothing recommendation

W Yu, H Zhang, X He, X Chen, L Xiong… - … of the 2018 world wide web …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Recently, product images have gained increasing attention in clothing recommendation
since the visual appearance of clothing products has a significant impact on consumers» …

SCUT-FBP5500: A diverse benchmark dataset for multi-paradigm facial beauty prediction

L Liang, L Lin, L Jin, D Xie, M Li - 2018 24th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Facial beauty prediction (FBP) is a significant visual recognition problem to make
assessment of facial attractiveness that is consistent to human perception. To tackle this …

A2-RL: Aesthetics aware reinforcement learning for image cropping

D Li, H Wu, J Zhang, K Huang - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Image cropping aims at improving the aesthetic quality of images by adjusting their
composition. Most weakly supervised cropping methods (without bounding box supervision) …

Attention-based multi-patch aggregation for image aesthetic assessment

K Sheng, W Dong, C Ma, X Mei, F Huang… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Aggregation structures with explicit information, such as image attributes and scene
semantics, are effective and popular for intelligent systems for assessing aesthetics of visual …

Blind predicting similar quality map for image quality assessment

D Pan, P Shi, M Hou, Z Ying, S Fu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
A key problem in blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is how to effectively model the
properties of human visual system in a data-driven manner. In this paper, we propose a …

Aesthetic-driven image enhancement by adversarial learning

Y Deng, CC Loy, X Tang - Proceedings of the 26th ACM international …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We introduce EnhanceGAN, an adversarial learning based model that performs automatic
image enhancement. Traditional image enhancement frameworks typically involve training …