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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. 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