An Image is Worth More than a Thousand Favorites
Surfacing the Hidden Beauty of Flickr Pictures
Rossano Schifanella Miriam Redi Luca Maria Aiello @rschifan @mad_astronaut @lajello
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2 SURFACE HIDDEN GEMS
Crowdsourcing image aesthe]cs judgments
10K photos Full popularity range
Evaluate the beauty of the picture, NOT the beauty of the subject
Instruc]ons Examples for each score
Good inter-‐rater agreement
Large ground truth of aesthe]c scores made by non-‐expert di.unito.it/beautyicwsm15
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popularity ~ beauty (0.43)
popular photos can have low aesthe]c value
Full range of beauty judgments
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9M Flickr CC pictures 200 top CrowdBeauty vs baselines
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