Image Aesthetics Toolkit - includes Fisher Vector implementation, AVA (Image Aesthetic Visual Analysis) dataset and fast multi-threaded downloader
Image aesthetic evaluation aims to classify photos into high quality or low quality from the perspective of human.
High Quality Image | Low Quality Image |
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Image Aesthetics drills down to a classification problem:
A commonly used dataset for image aesthetics is AVA (Image Aesthetic Visual Analysis) dataset
This repo provides following tools to help in image aesthetics problem:
Fisher Vector is a technique for generating features for images, which can be used by discriminative models like SVM. You can use fisher vectors for usecases like image classification (ImageNet), image aesthetics.
Spatial pooling is a technique to save the spatial information of the image while generating features. This is very important in image aesthetics because the look and feel of the image are highly dependent on the aspect ratio, placement of the objects in the image.
Following image should clarify the importance of spatial pooling:
For spatial pooling, the fisher vector paper recommends splitting the image into 4 patches:
To generate the fisher vector of the image, as shown in the flowchart above, we concat the fisher vectors of the 4 individual patches of the image.
./download.py --help
./download.py ava
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