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Intrinsic image popularity assessment

  • Keyan Ding
  • , Kede Ma
  • , Shiqi Wang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • City University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

The goal of research in automatic image popularity assessment (IPA) is to develop computational models that can accurately predict the potential of a social image to go viral on the Internet. Here, we aim to single out the contribution of visual content to image popularity, i.e., intrinsic image popularity. Specifically, we first describe a probabilistic method to generate massive popularity-discriminable image pairs, based on which the first large-scale image database for intrinsic IPA (I2PA) is established. We then develop computational models for I2PA based on deep neural networks, optimizing for ranking consistency with millions of popularity-discriminable image pairs. Experiments on Instagram and other social platforms demonstrate that the optimized model performs favorably against existing methods, exhibits reasonable generalizability on different databases, and even surpasses human-level performance on Instagram. In addition, we conduct a psychophysical experiment to analyze various aspects of human behavior in I2PA.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM 2019 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages1979-1987
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450368896
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Oct 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2019 - Nice, France
Duration: 21 Oct 201925 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameMM 2019 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Conference

Conference27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period21/10/1925/10/19

Keywords

  • Deep neural networks
  • Human behavior analysis
  • Intrinsic image popularity
  • Learning-to-rank

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