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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.