Design Mining Visual Balance

Abstract

Psychological studies show that visual balance is an innate concept for humans [12, 20], which influences how we perceive visual aesthetics and cognize harmony [56]. There exists a body of work endeavoring to understand visual balance and its relation with symmetry [52] about vertical [19, 61, 73] and horizontal [19] axes, content of the scene [33], color contrast [35, 57], and styles in abstract and representational artworks [38, 39, 68, 70].