Summary

Image aesthetics assessment (IAA) aims to evaluate whether an image conforms to the aesthetic preferences of a potential audience. Recommendation ITU-T F.740.4 defines metadata for image aesthetics assessment with aesthetic attributes in a mobile terminal computational photography system. The metadata is divided into three dimensions according to the key roles: photographer, camera and viewer, and provides non-redundant, fundamental and representative aesthetic attributes of each dimension. The role-based metadata defined in this Recommendation can be used to guide the construction of IAA datasets, and to provide multiple aesthetic attributes evaluation for IAA. Moreover, sample collection requirements and qualifications for annotators are recommended to guide high quality data construction.