arXiv:2608. 07570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainable aesthetic image cropping requires not only localizing a visually pleasing crop but also explaining why it is preferred.
The paper introduces a new approach to aesthetic image cropping by modeling human preference as a continuous, multi-peaked field rather than relying on discrete, grid‑based annotations. It presents the Continuous Preference Field (CPF) that reconstructs a dense preference landscape from sparse labels, and uses this to train a VLM‑based cropping model (CPIC) that achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy and strong out‑of‑domain generalization. Additionally, the authors propose CPICD, a recalibrated benchmark that corrects grid‑bound artifacts in existing datasets, providing a more reliable evaluation framework.
arXiv:2608.21762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) fail many detail-centric questions for a concrete reason: the answer is visible in the image, yet lost after the image...
GeoComposer is a new framework that improves photographic composition by generating textual guidance and visual exemplars for a given image. It uses a geometry-aware representation learning mechanism that incorporates geometric priors from a visual geometry foundation model to maintain global structure and fine-grained correspondences. A reinforcement learning strategy with a hybrid reward optimizes instruction following, aesthetic quality, and geometric consistency, leading to superior results compared to state‑of‑the‑art methods.
arXiv:2610.34221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aesthetic image cropping (AIC) aims to improve image composition and aesthetic quality by removing extraneous or distracting content. Over the past dec...
Prior work on aesthetic composition typically produces a single aesthetically pleasing crop, overlooking the narrative value of composing multiple shots from one scene. In practice, multi-shot composition is critical for downstream creative workflows: commercial posters often require multiple crops with different emphases (e.
Image cropping aims to improve image aesthetics by preserving important content within an appropriately composed region. However, most existing methods focus primarily on salient regions and therefore have limited sensitivity to the global relationships among the main image components.
PortraitAes: Intent-Conditioned Structured Portrait Aesthetic Assessment introduces a new benchmark, PortraitAes-Bench, with 11,000 images and a detailed rubric covering nine photographic intents, six first-level dimensions, and 22 secondary criteria. The model predicts aesthetic scores conditioned on photographic intent, using multi-task supervision and Gaussian score calibration to improve comparability. On the benchmark, PortraitAes achieves high Pearson (0.924) and Spearman (0.934) correlations, outperforming general-purpose MLLMs and specialized baselines.
The paper introduces a composition‑aware pretraining framework for geospatial foundation models that explicitly encodes fractional land‑cover mixtures as histogram targets for each satellite image cell. By using Earth Mover’s Distance to distill these composition targets into a 36.8 M‑parameter backbone, the authors demonstrate significant improvements on region‑level tasks such as zero‑shot image retrieval and scene classification, while maintaining competitive performance on fine‑grained tasks like segmentation and object detection. The method outperforms larger models (SatMAE and Prithvi‑EO‑2.0) and achieves a 55.6 % relative boost on the ForestNet‑12 dataset, evidencing the benefit of explicit composition modeling.
arXiv:2610.33518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot remote sensing scene classification (FSRSSC) aims to recognize novel scene categories from only a few labeled images. Most FSRSSC methods summ...
arXiv:2512.22819v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Panoramic depth estimation captures the complete 360$^\circ$ scene geometry, being essential for robotics and AR/VR applications. While perspective...
The paper introduces a dual‑projection framework for rectifying 360° panoramic images, combining a convolutional neural network that processes equirectangular projections with a vision transformer that handles cubemap projections. Cross‑projection feature transformation and multi‑level fusion allow the two representations to interact, supporting collaborative inclination estimation and upright panorama generation. Experiments on SUN360 and M3D demonstrate significant accuracy gains, achieving 65.9% and 85.2% within a 1° error threshold and low Fréchet Inception Distance scores.