Patent 7933454 was granted and assigned to Xerox on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for image enhancement includes providing for a semantic class to be assigned to a digital image based on image content, the assigned semantic class being selected from a plurality of semantic classes. The method further includes providing for an aesthetic enhancement to be applied to the image based on image quality of the image and the assigned semantic class, the enhancement including at least one enhancement dimension selected from a plurality of enhancement dimensions.