Photozilla: An Image Dataset of Photography Styles and its Application to Visual Embedding and Style Detection

The widespread sharing of digital photography and images have led to the rapid development of various vision-related applications, such as photography style detection. Towards this effort, we introduce a photography style dataset termed Photozilla, which comprises over 990k images belonging to 10 different photographic styles. We used Photozilla to train 3 classification models for categorizing images into the relevant style and achieve an accuracy of similar to 96%. To better detect new photography styles that are constantly emerging, we also present a Siamese-based network that uses the trained classification models as the base architecture to adapt and classify unseen styles with only 25 training samples. Experiment results show an accuracy of over 68% in terms of identifying 10 additional distinct categories of photography styles. This dataset can be found at https://trisha025.github.io/Photozilla/.