Aesthetic Quality Classification of Photographs: A Literature Survey

Abstract

Aesthetic quality classification plays an important role in our day to day life. Aesthetic generally refers to the beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Image aesthetic is a special session in the current area of computational visual aesthetic. Owing to the booming development of digital media the visual data available on the internet is growing exponentially. Some images are extremely beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. The aesthetic beauty of a picture is determined by many factors, some of these aesthetic quality factors include cuteness, prettiness, messiness, neatness, cuddleness, loveliness, organized, disorganized. It creates radical change in the sweet aesthetic sensations in both physiological and psychological. Many people these days have large photo collections. The aesthetic quality classification of photographs helps peoples to organize large photo collections. An aesthetic picture may tell an entire story of an event. Through a quality image we can see into the life of things .Therefore the assessment of image quality is a challenge. This paper gives a survey of aesthetic quality classification of photographs including the image quality factors, quality assessment and a brief description of existing approaches are presented.