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Rule of Thirds Detection from Photograph |
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Long Mai, Hoang Le, Yuzhen Niu,
and Feng Liu |
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Department of Computer Science,
Portland State University
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The copyright of this photo belongs to
Flickr user Stuck in Customs
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| Abstract |
| The rule of thirds is one of the most important
composition rules used by photographers to create high-quality
photos. The rule of thirds states that placing important objects
along the imagery thirds lines or around their intersections
often produces highly aesthetic photos. In this paper, we
present a method to automatically determine whether a photo
respects the rule of thirds. Detecting the rule of thirds from
a photo requires semantic content understanding to locate
important objects, which is beyond the state of the art. This
paper makes use of the recent saliency and generic objectness
analysis as an alternative and accordingly designs a range of
features. Our experiment with a variety of saliency and generic
objectness methods shows that an encouraging performance
can be achieved in detecting the rule of thirds from photos. |
| Paper |
Long Mai, Hoang Le, Yuzhen Niu,
and Feng Liu. Rule of Thirds Detection from Photograph.
IEEE ISM 2011, Dana Point, CA, USA, December 2011.
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| Related Paper |
Long Mai, Hoang Le, Yuzhen Niu,
Yu-chi Lai, and Feng
Liu. Detecting Rule of Simplicity from Photos.
ACM Multimedia 2012, Nara, Japan, October 2012.
(short paper) PDF
Website
Yuzhen Niu and Feng Liu. What Makes a Professional Video? A Computational Aesthetics Approach.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Vol. 22, Issue 7, 2012: 1037 - 1049.
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Rule of Thirds Image Set
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Below is the image collection used in our paper. It contains 2089 images that respect the rule
of thirds and 2051 images that do not. This collection includes images from Flickr and Photo.net.
For copyright issue, we only include the actual urls of the images. If you use this image set in your paper, please cite our paper. |
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Rule of thirds image set |