arXiv:2608. 00089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With rapid growth in the fields of empirical and computational aesthetics we have seen a vast increase in large image datasets annotated for aesthetics.
arXiv:2607.02290v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent image generation and editing models can produce visually appealing natural images, yet they remain unreliable when the target image is a kno...
Image style is a highly abstract, human-constructed concept shaped by a range of visual factors and intrinsically entangled with content, yet a unified and explicit definition of image style remains l...
MegaStyle++ introduces a hierarchical definition of image style, ranging from overall style identity to fine‑grained visual attributes, to provide a more structured, transferable, and interpretable representation. Using this definition, the authors refined the MegaStyle annotation pipeline and released MegaStyle++‑8M, a dataset with 150K style identities, 1M fine‑grained prompts, and 8M stylized images. Analyses show that the hierarchical approach expands style diversity and semantic breadth while accurately capturing the intrinsic visual style of reference images.
Traditional Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) methods mainly rely on regressing absolute Mean Opinion Scores (MOS). However, such a paradigm overlooks the inherently dynamic nature of human aesthetic perception, which relies on subconscious comparison against implicit visual references.
While Text-to-Image (T2I) models have shown remarkable success in generating photorealistic visual content, they still struggle with the rigorous semantic alignment and logical reasoning required for scientific imagery. Inspired by Peirce's Semiotic Triad, we introduce Scientific Image Reasoning (SciIR), a comprehensive resource for training and evaluation of scientific image generation.
arXiv:2512. 05098v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) for AI-generated images (AIGI) has advanced rapidly; however, existing methods primarily target portraits and artistic images, lacking a systematic evaluation of interior scenes.
arXiv:2610.00737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalized image generation has remained narrowly focused on conditional synthesis from curated visual exemplars, rather than capturing who a user...
arXiv:2606. 08841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly deployed in open-ended creative contexts, yet their outputs remain impersonal, optimized for aggregate aesthetics rather than individual taste.
The paper introduces a self‑supervised framework that maps text, audio, image, and video into a shared 256‑dimensional embedding space and uses iterative clustering to uncover aesthetic structure. It examines how AI’s cluster assignments diverge from human affective labels on a weakly supervised multimodal dataset. The study highlights implications for cross‑modal similarity, media organization for Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, and automated data labeling.
The paper explores how AI can develop its own aesthetic categorization of art across text, audio, image, and video without explicit labels. Using a self‑supervised framework, the authors embed these modalities into a shared 256‑dimensional space and iteratively cluster the data to uncover aesthetic structure. They compare the AI’s cluster assignments with human affective labels, highlighting divergences and discussing implications for cross‑modal similarity, media organization, and automated labeling.
arXiv:2601. 13591v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent LLM-based data agents aim to automate data science tasks ranging from data analysis to deep learning.
Recent text-to-image models such as DALLE-3 excel at following diverse prompts yet remain blind to individual aesthetic preferences. We study personalized image generation, where models must align outputs with a user's implicit visual preferences based on a few historically preferred images and a short prompt.