From Technical to Aesthetics Quality Assessment and Beyond: Challenges and Potential

Vlad Hosu, Dietmar Saupe, Bastian Goldluecke, Weisi Lin, Wen Huang Cheng, John See, Lai Kuan Wong

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Abstract

Every day 1.8+ billion images are being uploaded to Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, and WhatsApp [6]. The exponential growth of visual media has made quality assessment become increasingly important for various applications, from image acquisition, synthesis, restoration, and enhancement, to image search and retrieval, storage, and recognition. There have been two related but different classes of visual quality assessment techniques: image quality assessment (IQA) and image aesthetics assessment (IAA). As perceptual assessment tasks, subjective IQA and IAA share some common underlying factors that affect user judgments. Moreover, they are similar in methodology (especially NR-IQA in-The-wild and IAA). However, the emphasis for each is different: IQA focuses on low-level defects e.g. processing artefacts, noise, and blur, while IAA puts more emphasis on abstract and higher-level concepts that capture the subjective aesthetics experience, e.g. established photographic rules encompassing lighting, composition, and colors, and personalized factors such as personality, cultural background, age, and emotion. IQA has been studied extensively over the last decades [3, 14, 22]. There are three main types of IQA methods: full-reference (FR), reduced-reference (RR), and no-reference (NR). Among these, NRIQA is the most challenging as it does not depend on reference images or impose strict assumptions on the distortion types and level. NR-IQA techniques can be further divided into those that predict the global image score [1, 2, 10, 17, 26] and patch-based IQA [23, 25], naming a few of the more recent approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationATQAM/MAST 2020 - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages19-20
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450381543
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Oct 2020
Event2020 ACM Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends, ATQAM/MAST 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 12 Oct 2020 → …

Publication series

NameATQAM/MAST 2020 - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends

Conference

Conference2020 ACM Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends, ATQAM/MAST 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/10/20 → …

Keywords

  • challenges
  • iaa
  • image aesthetics assessment
  • image quality assessment
  • iqa
  • potential

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