Google AI can rate Photos to figure out what you’ll like

Photo apps can help you find objects in your pictures, but they don’t tell you whether or not those images are worth sharing. For now, that’s still up to you. If Google has its way, though, AI may serve as an art critic. It just detailed work on a Neural Image Assessment (NIMA) system that uses a deep convolutional neural network to rate photos based on what it believes you’d like, both technically and aesthetically.

The Google assessment draws upon reference photos if available, but if not, it uses statistical models to predict image quality. The goal is to get a quality score that will match up to human perception, even if the image is distorted. Google has found that the scores granted by the assessment are similar to scores given by human raters.

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