Recently, there is a rising interest in perceiving image aesthetics. The
existing works deal with image aesthetics as a classification or regression
problem. To extend the cognition from rating to reasoning, a deeper
understanding of aesthetics should be based on revealing why a high- or
low-aesthetic score should be assigned to an image. From such a point of view,
we propose a model referred to as Neural Aesthetic Image Reviewer, which can
not only give an aesthetic score for an image, but also generate a textual
description explaining why the image leads to a plausible rating score.
Specifically, we propose two multi-task architectures based on shared
aesthetically semantic layers and task-specific embedding layers at a high
level for performance improvement on different tasks. To facilitate researches
on this problem, we collect the AVA-Reviews dataset, which contains 52,118
images and 312,708 comments in total. Through multi-task learning, the proposed
models can rate aesthetic images as well as produce comments in an end-to-end
manner. It is confirmed that the proposed models outperform the baselines
according to the performance evaluation on the AVA-Reviews dataset. Moreover,
we demonstrate experimentally that our model can generate textual reviews
related to aesthetics, which are consistent with human perception.

为了更深入地认识审美，本文提出了一种神经审美图像审阅者模型，可以不仅为图像提供审美评分，还能生成解释评分原因的文本描述。通过多任务学习，该模型可以评估审美图像并以端到端的方式产生评论。研究结果表明，该模型在 AVA-Reviews 数据集上具有优异的表现，可以与人类视觉感知相一致。