Appeal assessment of photographs for quality of experience measurements

Although quality of experience (QoE) is defined as a subjective end-user perception, most QoE measurements target boring content. Unsurprisingly, media creators and end-users are interested in interesting content. Therefore, QoE measurements are ineffective for interesting content. In this paper, we focus on a subjective assessment of the appeal of interesting photos. Several reasons for the positive or negative assessment of photos are also described. The experimental results show that there is a relationship between the appealing level of interesting photos and standard deviation. The results show the importance of knowing why an observer determines a photo to be appealing or unappealing.