Research in psychology demonstrates that visual features and semantic content can convey various emotions. Furthermore, studies have proved that image emotion and aesthetics are inextricably linked. During the image aesthetic assessment process (IAA), images elicit emotional responses from individuals, leading to emotional resonance and influencing the evaluation of images. This article proposes an image aesthetics assessment method based on hypernetwork of emotion fusion (HNEF). Our method incorporates the emotions depicted in images into the process of IAA. To accomplish this, we extract both aesthetic and emotional features from the images. Additionally, we employed the self-attention mechanism of the transformer to comprehensively investigate the intimate connection between aesthetics and emotion. Additionally, the hypernetwork is designed to establish perception rules governing the high-level semantic information in images. The experimental results validate the strong correlation between emotion and aesthetics. Furthermore, the proposed method exhibits a significantly competitive advantage when compared to existing methods on the Aesthetic Visual Analysis (AVA) dataset.

Image aesthetics assessment (IAA) is a subjective and complex task. The aesthetics of different themes vary greatly in content and aesthetic results, whether they are in the same aesthetic community or not. In aesthetic evaluation tasks, the pretrained network with direct fine-tune may not be able to quickly adapt to tasks on various themes. This article introduces a metalearning-based multipatch (MetaMP) IAA method to adapt to various thematic tasks quickly. The network is trained based on metalearning to obtain content-oriented aesthetic expression. In addition, we design a complete-information patch selection scheme and a multipatch (MP) network to make the fine details fit the overall impression. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in comparison with the state-of-the-art models based on aesthetic visual analysis (AVA) benchmark datasets. In addition, the evaluation of the dataset shows the effectiveness of our metalearning training model, which not only improves MetaMP assessment accuracy but also provides valuable guidance for network initialization of IAA.