Visual aesthetics has always been an important area of computational vision, and researchers have continued exploring it. To further improve the performance of the image aesthetic evaluation task, we introduce a Transformer into the image aesthetic evaluation task. This paper pioneers a novel self-supervised image aesthetic evaluation model founded upon Transformers. Meanwhile, we expand the pretext task to capture rich visual representations, adding a branch for inpainting the masked images in parallel with the tasks related to aesthetic quality degradation operations. Our model’s refinement employs the innovative uncertainty weighting method, seamlessly amalgamating three distinct losses into a unified objective. On the AVA dataset, our approach surpasses the efficacy of prevailing self-supervised image aesthetic assessment methods. Remarkably, we attain results approaching those of supervised methods, even while operating with a limited dataset. On the AADB dataset, our approach improves the aesthetic binary classification accuracy by roughly 16% compared to other self-supervised image aesthetic assessment methods and improves the prediction of aesthetic attributes.

Person pose transfer has shown great application prospects and potential in recent years. However, this research mainly focuses on posture transfer and does not pay much attention to other human body attributes. In addition, there are problems such as blurred facial expressions and inconsistent facial texture. In order to solve these problems and improve user experience, this paper proposes a multi-feature transfer person image generation model, which combines facial expression transfer and pose transfer and completes the lighting reconstruction of person images. Our model can simultaneously migrate and supplement facial expressions while migrating a person’s posture, ensuring the consistency of characters’ overall migration. Our model can freely switch personal body lighting to adapt to different scenes, greatly improving the user experience. The experimental results show that our method’s preservation rate for face identity is improved by nearly 35% compared with the benchmark, and the similarity index for the overall person body is improved by nearly 14%. The evaluation results indicate that our method performs well in person posture transfer. The experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to the existing algorithms in person posture transformation.

Image aesthetics quality assessment has received extensive research in recent years, but there are still few studies on the aesthetic quality evaluation of group photograph of humans. In this work, we designed a set of high-level aesthetic features based on the experience and principles of group photography, including opened-eye, gaze, smile, facial occluded, facial orientation, facial blur, character center. Then we combined them and 83 generic aesthetic features to build two aesthetic assessment models. A large dataset of group photographs - GPD- annotated with the aesthetic score was constructed. The experimental result on the GPD shows that our features perform well for categorizing professional photos and snapshots and predicting the distinction of multiple group photographs of diverse human states under the same scene.The classification accuracy reached 70.97%, the discrimination metric we proposed reached 1.368, which was higher than the negative discrimination value of other methods.

Image aesthetic assessment is a hot issue in current research, but less research has been done in the art image aesthetic assessment field, mainly due to the lack of large-scale artwork datasets. The recently proposed BAID dataset fills this gap and allows us to delve into the aesthetic assessment methods of artworks, and this research will contribute to the study of artworks and can also be applied to real-life scenarios, such as art exams, to assist in judging. In this paper, we propose a new method, TSC-Net (Theme-Style-Color guided Artistic Image Aesthetics Assessment Network), which extracts image theme information, image style information, and color information and fuses general aesthetic information to assess art images. Experiments show that our proposed method outperforms existing methods using the BAID dataset.

Group photo images are everywhere and vary greatly by the shooting scene. Compared with common images, the Image Aesthetic Quality Assessment (IAQI) of group photo pays more attention to the relevant characteristics of the main population. Still, the existing methods do not make further special research on group photos. Therefore, we propose a new concept of group photo styling based on analyzing group photos and photographic theory. Besides that, by comparing and analyzing many group photos, we classify the group photos into five categories. In this paper, the main factors of the head and pose are considered simultaneously, and the method of Group Photo Styling Classification (GPSC) can classify different group photos automatically. To verify the effectiveness of our method, we collected a Group Photo Styling Dataset (GPSD). The dataset contains 998 group photo images, and each image’s group photo styling category is marked. The experimental results on GPSD show that the fusion of head features and pose features can classify different group photos well. The accuracy of GPSC reaches 93.9%, much higher than the previous classification model.