On-site composition and aesthetics feedback through exemplars for photographers

摘要

A comprehensive system to enhance the aesthetic quality of the photographs captured by mobile consumers provides on-site composition and aesthetics feedback through retrieved examples. Composition feedback is qualitative in nature and responds by retrieving highly aesthetic exemplar images from the corpus which are similar in content and composition to the snapshot. Color combination feedback provides confidence on the snapshot to contain good color combinations. Overall aesthetics feedback predicts the aesthetic ratings for both color and monochromatic images. An algorithm is used to provide ratings for color images, while new features and a new model are developed to treat monochromatic images. This system was designed keeping the next generation photography needs in mind and is the first of its kind. The feedback rendered is guiding and intuitive in nature. It is computed in situ while requiring minimal input from the user.

主权项

1. A method of assessing the aesthetic quality of a digital image, comprising the steps of:
receiving a digital image at a computer server program; automatically computing one or more composition categories associated with the image by the computer server program, the composition categories including:
horizontal, vertical, or centered,diagonal, andtextured versus non-textured; and providing feedback to a user regarding the aesthetic quality of the image based upon the composition categories.