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Learning artistic lighting template from portrait photographs

  • Xin Jin
  • , Mingtian Zhao
  • , Xiaowu Chen*
  • , Qinping Zhao
  • , Song Chun Zhu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • Lotus Hill Institute
  • University of California at Los Angeles

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for learning artistic portrait lighting template from a dataset of artistic and daily portrait photographs. The learned template can be used for (1) classification of artistic and daily portrait photographs, and (2) numerical aesthetic quality assessment of these photographs in lighting usage. For learning the template, we adopt Haar-like local lighting contrast features, which are then extracted from pre-defined areas on frontal faces, and selected to form a log-linear model using a stepwise feature pursuit algorithm. Our learned template corresponds well to some typical studio styles of portrait photography. With the template, the classification and assessment tasks are achieved under probability ratio test formulations. On our dataset composed of 350 artistic and 500 daily photographs, we achieve a 89.5% classification accuracy in cross-validated tests, and the assessment model assigns reasonable numerical scores based on portraits' aesthetic quality in lighting.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ECCV 2010 - 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages101-114
Number of pages14
EditionPART 4
ISBN (Print)364215560X, 9783642155604
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event11th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2010 - Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Duration: 10 Sep 201011 Sep 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 4
Volume6314 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2010
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityHeraklion, Crete
Period10/09/1011/09/10

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