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Talk · Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · September 1, 2017

Filling the gaps: Reducing the complexity of networks for multi-attribute image aesthetic prediction

Magzhan Kairanbay, John See, Lai-Kuan Wong, Yong-Lian Hii

Abstract

Computational aesthetics have seen much progress in recent years with the increasing popularity of deep learning methods. In this paper, we present two approaches that leverage on the benefits of using Global Average Pooling (GAP) to reduce the complexity of deep convolutional neural networks. The first model fine-tunes a standard CNN with a newly introduced GAP layer. The second approach extracts global and local CNN codes by reducing the dimensionality of convolution layers with individual GAP operations. We also extend these approaches to a multi-attribute network which uses a style network to regularize the aesthetic network. Experiments demonstrate the capability of attaining comparable accuracy results while reducing training complexity substantially.

Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsImage and Video Quality AssessmentAesthetic Perception and Analysiscomputational aestheticsglobal average poolingfine-tuning

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