Continuous preference fields improve aesthetic crops beyond rigid annotation grids

The authors reconstruct dense aesthetic preferences from sparse crop labels, then use them to train and evaluate a vision-language cropping model.

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Ziqing Zhang · Xiao Liu · Kai Liu · Jianze Li · Weihang Zhang · Linghe Kong · +1 more

Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Institute of Media Technology and Experience Design · Huawei

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The authors model cropping preference as a field over possible crop boxes.

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A continuous preference field for aesthetic cropping yields more accurate and generalizable crops than discrete grid annotation.

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