ACQUINE: Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine

Penn State has brought “Acquine” online, which stands for the “Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine”.  From an interview in Penn State Live:

Wang said the system extracts and uses visual aspects such as color saturation, color distribution and photo composition to give any uploaded image a rating from zero to 100. The system learns to associate these aspects with the way humans rate photos based on thousands of previously-rated photographs in online photo-sharing Web sites such as photo.net.

ACQUINE: Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine – Intelligent, Unbiased and Instant Assessment of Photos.

About the Author: Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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