The photo agency start - up Everypixel has launched an algorithm that uses a neural network to measure the quality of digital images . They worked with professional photographers , designers and editors to create a quality dataset by testing 956,794 positive and negative patterns on a " heartless algorithm " . The neural network then learned to give each image an aesthetic score , with the data correlated with subsequent search results .
Stock photo agency start-up Everypixel has launched an algorithm that uses a neural network to measure the beauty of stock images. Everypixel worked with professional photographers, designers and editors to create a training dataset by testing 956,794 positive and negative patterns on a "heartless algorithm". The neural network then learned to give each image an aesthetic score, with the data improving with subsequent search results.