A study on the factors affecting the attractiveness of food photography

Abstract

This paper reports the results of the analysis on the factors affecting the attractiveness of food photos. So far, we focused on only the camera framing (i.e. camera angle) as a major factor that affects the attractiveness of food photos, and proposed a method for attractiveness estimation using several kinds of image features. In this paper, we focus on two more factors; blurring and scaling, which should also largely affect the attractiveness of food photos. We constructed an image dataset focusing on the blurring and the scaling as well as the camera framing. We also quantitatively analyzed their effects from the viewpoint of 1) the attractiveness of food photos, and 2) the accuracy of the estimation method. As a result, we confirmed the importance to consider the two factors for achieving the accurate attractiveness estimation.