A Comprehensive Survey on Image Aesthetic Quality Assessment

Abstract

Image aesthetic quality assessment has demonstrated tremendous success in variety of application domains in recent years. This field has been growing so rapidly that various approaches have been proposed trying to solve this challenging problem. This report presents a comprehensive survey on image aesthetic quality assessment, mainly focus on the contributions and novelties of the existing approaches recently. In this work, we firstly illustrate datasets related to image aesthetics and investigate feature extractions. Then five different aesthetic tasks are reviewed, including aesthetic classification, aesthetic regression, aesthetic distribution, aesthetic factors and aesthetic description. In addition, we reviewed recent applications concerning image aesthetics. Finally, different evaluation criterions in different literatures are summarized. We hope the survey could serve as a comprehensive reference and be useful for those who are interested in exploiting image aesthetic for their research.