Computers With Opinions On Visual Aesthetics

photoenthusiast writes "Penn State researchers launched a new online photo-rating system, code named Acquine (Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine), for automatically determining the aesthetic value of a photo. Users can upload their own photographs for an instant Acquine rating, a score from zero to 100. The system learns to associate extracted visual characteristics with the way humans rate photos based on a lot of previously-rated photographs. It is designed for color natural photographic pictures. Technical publications reveal how Acquine works."

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Re:Matter of opinion?

[Guano_Jim]

Just in case anyone asks, here's the computer rating for goatse, emphasis mine:

Machine Prediction of Aesthetic Value
Score predicted by Acquine: 19.4/100 rated as below average

Looking at that image a

Re:My lone opinion

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you find that it "does a good job of approximating human response"? Because I don't. Photos that are absolute crap get 99.99% and interesting photos get 1%. It seems completely random, except for its apparent preference for high resolution and black borders.