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Autori principali: Qi, Daiqing, Zhao, Handong, Shi, Jing, Jenni, Simon, Fan, Yifei, Dernoncourt, Franck, Cohen, Scott, Li, Sheng
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18582
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author Qi, Daiqing
Zhao, Handong
Shi, Jing
Jenni, Simon
Fan, Yifei
Dernoncourt, Franck
Cohen, Scott
Li, Sheng
author_facet Qi, Daiqing
Zhao, Handong
Shi, Jing
Jenni, Simon
Fan, Yifei
Dernoncourt, Franck
Cohen, Scott
Li, Sheng
contents While editing directly from life, photographers have found it too difficult to see simultaneously both the blue and the sky. Photographer and curator, Szarkowski insightfully revealed one of the notable gaps between general and aesthetic visual understanding: while the former focuses on identifying the factual element in an image (sky), the latter transcends such object identification, viewing it instead as an aesthetic component--a pure color block (blue). Such fundamental distinctions between general (detection, localization, etc.) and aesthetic (color, lighting, composition, etc.) visual understanding present a significant challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Although some recent works have made initial explorations, they are often limited to general and basic aesthetic commonsense. As a result, they frequently fall short in real-world scenarios (Fig. 1), which require extensive expertise--including photographic techniques, photo pre/post-processing knowledge, and more, to provide a detailed analysis and description. To fundamentally enhance the aesthetics understanding of MLLMs, we first introduce a novel dataset, PhotoCritique, derived from extensive discussions among professional photographers and enthusiasts, and characterized by the large scale, expertise, and diversity. Then, to better learn visual aesthetics from PhotoCritique, we furthur propose a novel model, PhotoEye, featuring a languageguided multi-view vision fusion mechanism to understand image aesthetics from multiple perspectives. Finally, we present a novel benchmark, PhotoBench, a comprehensive and professional benchmark for aesthetic visual understanding. On existing benchmarks and PhotoBench, our model demonstrates clear advantages over existing models.
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spellingShingle The Photographer Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to Understand Image Aesthetics like Photographers
Qi, Daiqing
Zhao, Handong
Shi, Jing
Jenni, Simon
Fan, Yifei
Dernoncourt, Franck
Cohen, Scott
Li, Sheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
While editing directly from life, photographers have found it too difficult to see simultaneously both the blue and the sky. Photographer and curator, Szarkowski insightfully revealed one of the notable gaps between general and aesthetic visual understanding: while the former focuses on identifying the factual element in an image (sky), the latter transcends such object identification, viewing it instead as an aesthetic component--a pure color block (blue). Such fundamental distinctions between general (detection, localization, etc.) and aesthetic (color, lighting, composition, etc.) visual understanding present a significant challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Although some recent works have made initial explorations, they are often limited to general and basic aesthetic commonsense. As a result, they frequently fall short in real-world scenarios (Fig. 1), which require extensive expertise--including photographic techniques, photo pre/post-processing knowledge, and more, to provide a detailed analysis and description. To fundamentally enhance the aesthetics understanding of MLLMs, we first introduce a novel dataset, PhotoCritique, derived from extensive discussions among professional photographers and enthusiasts, and characterized by the large scale, expertise, and diversity. Then, to better learn visual aesthetics from PhotoCritique, we furthur propose a novel model, PhotoEye, featuring a languageguided multi-view vision fusion mechanism to understand image aesthetics from multiple perspectives. Finally, we present a novel benchmark, PhotoBench, a comprehensive and professional benchmark for aesthetic visual understanding. On existing benchmarks and PhotoBench, our model demonstrates clear advantages over existing models.
title The Photographer Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to Understand Image Aesthetics like Photographers
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18582