PHOG-derived aesthetic measures applied to color photographs of artworks, natural scenes and objects

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7583 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages 522-531

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

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aesthetic; anisotropy; art; Birkhoff like measure; complexity; Pyramid of Histograms of Orientation Gradients (PHOG); self similarity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY;

ART; BIRKHOFF-LIKE MEASURES; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS; COMPLEXITY; ESTHETIC; LARGE DATASETS; NATURAL SCENES; ORIENTATION GRADIENTS; PYRAMID OF HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTATION GRADIENT; SELF-SIMILARITIES;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84867730224     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33863-2_54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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