TY - GEN
T1 - From Technical to Aesthetics Quality Assessment and Beyond
T2 - 2020 ACM Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends, ATQAM/MAST 2020
AU - Hosu, Vlad
AU - Saupe, Dietmar
AU - Goldluecke, Bastian
AU - Lin, Weisi
AU - Cheng, Wen Huang
AU - See, John
AU - Wong, Lai Kuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/10/12
Y1 - 2020/10/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - challenges
KW - iaa
KW - image aesthetics assessment
KW - image quality assessment
KW - iqa
KW - potential
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095410205&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3423268.3423589
DO - 10.1145/3423268.3423589
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095410205
T3 - ATQAM/MAST 2020 - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends
SP - 19
EP - 20
BT - ATQAM/MAST 2020 - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 12 October 2020
ER -