Color: A Crucial Factor for Aesthetic Quality Assessment in a Subjective Dataset of Paintings

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Computational aesthetics is an emerging field of research which has attracted different research groups in the last few years.

• In this field, one of the main approaches to evaluate the aesthetic quality of paintings and photographs is a feature-based approach.
• Among the different features proposed to reach this goal, color plays an import role.
• In this paper, we introduce a novel dataset that consists of paintings of Western provenance from 36 well-known painters from the 15th to the 20th century.