A Computational Approach to Relative Aesthetics

Understand

Computational visual aesthetics has recently become an active research area.

• Existing state-of-art methods formulate this as a binary classification task where a given image is predicted to be beautiful or not.
• In many applications such as image retrieval and enhancement, it is more important to rank images based on their aesthetic quality instead of binary-categorizing them.
• Furthermore, in such applications, it may be possible that all images belong to the same category.