PhotoGuider: Composition-Aware Cropping and 360^{circ} View Framing with Explainable Photographic Assessments
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabPhotoGuider is a measure-then-frame method for cropping and framing photographs and 360° panoramas. It uses compact learned scorers over composition-aware features grouped into four photographic tokens: Subject, Composition, Aesthetics, and Integrity. An MLLM explainer, fine-tuned on images and measured token assessments, generates composition-related explanations. The paper reports the highest average mIoU on two standard 2D cropping benchmarks and a blind ranking study with 120 participants over 100 Poly Haven panoramas, where its framings were ranked first in 53.2% of cases.
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PhotoGuider is a measure-then-frame method for cropping and framing photographs and 360° panoramas. It uses compact learned scorers over composition-aware features grouped into four photographic tokens: Subject, Composition, Aesthetics, and Integrity. An MLLM explainer, fine-tuned on images and measured token assessments, generates composition-related explanations. The paper reports the highest average mIoU on two standard 2D cropping benchmarks and a blind ranking study with 120 participants over 100 Poly Haven panoramas, where its framings were ranked first in 53.2% of cases.
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- Combines composition-based viewing direction selection in 360° panoramas with refined framing and camera-parameter output.
- Achieves the highest average mIoU against ground-truth crops on two standard 2D cropping benchmarks.
- In a blind study of 120 participants, its framings ranked first in 53.2% of cases versus 27.3% and 19.5% for alternatives.
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Extends cropping beyond choosing where to crop in an existing photo to also discovering the viewing direction in a full 360° scene, with explanations tied to measured composition attributes.
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