Computational Analysis of Correlations between Image Aesthetic and Image Naturalness in the Relation with Image Quality

The main purpose of this paper is the study of the correlations between Image Aesthetic (IA) and Image Naturalness (IN) and the analysis of the influence of IA and IN on Image Quality (IQ) in different contexts. The first contribution is a study about the potential relationships between IA and IN. For that study, two sub-questions are considered. The first one is to validate the idea that IA and IN are not correlated to each other. The second one is about the influence of IA and IN features on Image Naturalness Assessment (INA) and Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA), respectively. Secondly, it is obvious that IQ is related to IA and IN, but the exact influence of IA and IN on IQ has not been evaluated. Besides that, the context impact on those influences has not been clarified, so the second contribution is to investigate the influence of IA and IN on IQ in different contexts. The results obtained from rigorous experiments prove that although there are moderate and weak correlations between IA and IN, they are still two different components of IQ. It also appears that viewers’ IQ perception is affected by some contextual factors, and the influence of IA and IN on IQ depends on the considered context.