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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: melastmohican on May 21, 2009, 12:45

Title: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: melastmohican on May 21, 2009, 12:45
Researchers at Penn State put together a photo ranking algorithm that you can now test for yourself on the web. It's called Acquine (http://acquine.alipr.com/), and it's based on data from large numbers of human ratings that determined what people find aesthetically pleasing in a photo.
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: goldenangel on May 21, 2009, 12:50
Very interesting! who knows, this might be the future of the photo review process :D Just kidding.

I'm a bit hesitant to upload some of my pictures as the website says: "Photos may be viewed by others." I guess the photo stays in their database?
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: melastmohican on May 21, 2009, 12:53
Use photo from the web, they got link option.
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: goldenangel on May 21, 2009, 13:04
Interesting. This famous photo got 77.6:

(http://www.photosfan.com/images/afghan-girl-national-geographic-photos-that-change1.jpg)
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: melastmohican on May 21, 2009, 13:07
It's based on statistics so it seems like  more than 20% of people might not like this photo.

I am guessing most of micros showing business people handshakes would not get high scores either. Picture which got over 90 are probably what most people would like to have framed on their walls :-)
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: RacePhoto on May 21, 2009, 13:29
Oh Ya, Rank This!

(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/TeamHodag/bartbutt.gif)

I looked at the top photos and my answer is NO!
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: null on May 21, 2009, 23:18
My best seller (rank 4 or so) on DT (which was sold this morning for 5$ again) rated 32.9/100.
This one (http://cjoint.com/data/fwf7DrdKsc.htm) was rated 90.1/100.

So professor Falcon, how about a nice game of chess (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo)?  ;D
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: Dreamframer on May 22, 2009, 03:00
Nice idea, but I doubt it will be possible in near future. It should be some artificial intelligence.
Title: Re: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
Post by: Milinz on May 24, 2009, 05:43
Who knows anything about aestetic value?

It is NOT POSSIBLE to make rating because aestetic merits are changing during time and they are circling like planet Earth is going around the sun...

Can you determine 'modern colors'? NOPE!
No possible to do such thing as determining aestetic quality.