PHOG analysis of self-similarity in aesthetic images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8291, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Amirshahi, Seyed Ali ^a   Koch, Michael ^a   Denzler, Joachim ^a   Redies, Christoph ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; art; Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG); Pyramid Histogram of Oriented Gradients (PHOG); self similarity

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS; ART; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS (HOG); PYRAMID HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS (PHOG); SELF-SIMILARITIES;

COMPUTER VISION; GRAPHIC METHODS; PHOTOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 84859451288     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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