A Novel Feature Fusion Method for Computing Image Aesthetic Quality

• Main Authors: Xuewei Li, Xueming Li, Gang Zhang, Xianlin Zhang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Deep convolutional neural networks; feature fusion; handcrafted aesthetic features; image aesthetics quality assessment
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9049106/

Computationally, the aesthetic quality of an image means that the model automatically scores the aesthetic level of the image. However, there are many factors that determine beauty or ugliness for photographic photos. Therefore, extracting a variety of representative aesthetic features and fusing these features are still difficult tasks. In this paper, we design a two-stream network to calculate the aesthetic quality of the image. The upper stream of the network is an improved network with the SEResNet-50 and six skip connections added, which can improve the performance of the model without training to obtain deep convolutional neural network features. The lower stream of the network consists of the proposed algorithms for handcrafted extracting aesthetic features and multiple convolution layers to extract the aesthetic features. Finally, to fuse the features of the two-stream network without adding feature dimensions, a novel feature fusion layer is proposed. The results show that this novel feature fusion method can calculate results close to the artificial aesthetic evaluation.