Wei-Hang Zhang

Discrete Annotation, Continuous Preference: Rethinking Supervision for Accurate and Generalizable Aesthetic Image Cropping

Aesthetic image cropping aims to identify the optimal crop of an image in terms of aesthetics and composition. While supervision based on annotated data is fundamental, the field has been hindered by a long-standing problem: existing datasets suffer from (1) human subjectivity and (2) rigid discreteness confined to fix...