CROP: Expert-Aligned Image Cropping via Compositional Reasoning and Optimizing Preference

ArXi:2605.12545v1 Announce Type: cross Aesthetic image cropping aims to enhance the aesthetic quality of an image by improving its composition through spatial cropping. Previous methods often rely on saliency prediction or retrieval augmentation, ignoring the task's core requirement: a deep understanding of composition and aesthetics. Consequently, saliency-based methods struggle to make compositional trade-offs in complex scenes, while retrieval-based methods blindly refer to similar cases, lacking adaptive reasoning for unique scenes.