Optimizing Photo Composition

Aesthetic images evoke an emotional response that transcends mere visual appreciation. In this work we develop a novel computational means for evaluating the composition aesthetics of a given image based on measuring several well‐grounded composition guidelines. A compound operator of crop‐and‐retar...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 469 - 478
Main Authors: Liu, Ligang, Chen, Renjie, Wolf, Lior, Cohen-Or, Daniel
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2010
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Automation
C (programming language)
Composition
Computation
Computer graphics
Guidelines
I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation-Display algorithms
Image processing systems
Operators
Optimization
Photography
Visual
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Summary:Aesthetic images evoke an emotional response that transcends mere visual appreciation. In this work we develop a novel computational means for evaluating the composition aesthetics of a given image based on measuring several well‐grounded composition guidelines. A compound operator of crop‐and‐retarget is employed to change the relative position of salient regions in the image and thus to modify the composition aesthetics of the image. We propose an optimization method for automatically producing a maximally‐aesthetic version of the input image. We validate the performance of the method and show its effectiveness in a variety of experiments.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01616.x