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Large field images and close-up images are two typical categories of images with opposite photographic rules so we want to investigate the intuition that prior Large field\/Close-up Image Classification (LCIC) might improve the performance of IAA. Secondly, when a viewer looks at a photo, some regions receive more attention than other regions. Those regions are defined as Regions Of Interest (ROI) and it might be worthy to identify those regions before IAA. The question \u201cIs it worthy to extract some ROIs before IAA?\u201d is considered by studying Region Of Interest Extraction (ROIE) before investigating IAA based on each feature set (global image features, ROI features and background features). Based on the answers, a new IAA model is proposed. The last point is about a comparison between the efficiency of handcrafted and learned features for the purpose of IAA.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jimaging7010003","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,27]],"date-time":"2020-12-27T20:04:58Z","timestamp":1609099498000},"page":"3","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Image Aesthetic Assessment Based on Image Classification and Region Segmentation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9521-6474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Quyet-Tien","family":"Le","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"GIPSA Lab, Grenoble Alpes University, 11 rue des Mathematiques, Grenoble Campus BP 46, F-38402 Saint Martin d\u2019Heres CEDEX, France"},{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Vietnam Maritime University, 484 Lach Tray, Le Chan, Hai Phong 04000, Vietnam"}]},{"given":"Patricia","family":"Ladret","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GIPSA Lab, Grenoble Alpes University, 11 rue des Mathematiques, Grenoble Campus BP 46, F-38402 Saint Martin d\u2019Heres CEDEX, France"}]},{"given":"Huu-Tuan","family":"Nguyen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Vietnam Maritime University, 484 Lach Tray, Le Chan, Hai Phong 04000, Vietnam"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5937-4627","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alice","family":"Caplier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GIPSA Lab, Grenoble Alpes University, 11 rue des Mathematiques, Grenoble Campus BP 46, F-38402 Saint Martin d\u2019Heres CEDEX, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"80","DOI":"10.1109\/MSP.2017.2696576","article-title":"Image aesthetic assessment: An experimental survey","volume":"34","author":"Deng","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Signal Process. 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