Visual Interestingness Decoded: How GPT-4o Mirrors Human Interests

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13316v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:04:48 GMT
• Title: Visual Interestingness Decoded: How GPT-4o Mirrors Human Interests
• Authors: Fitim Abdullahu, Helmut Grabner,
• Abstract summary: We explore the potential of Large Multimodal Models to understand the concepts of visual interestingness.<n>Our studies reveal partial alignment between humans and GPT-4o's, a leading LMM, predictions.<n>The insights pave the way for a deeper understanding of human interest.
• Score: 4.297070083645049
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Our daily life is highly influenced by what we consume and see. Attracting and holding one's attention -- the definition of (visual) interestingness -- is essential. The rise of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) trained on large-scale visual and textual data has demonstrated impressive capabilities. We explore these models' potential to understand to what extent the concepts of visual interestingness are captured and examine the alignment between human assessments and GPT-4o's, a leading LMM, predictions through comparative analysis. Our studies reveal partial alignment between humans and GPT-4o. It already captures the concept as best compared to state-of-the-art methods. Hence, this allows for the effective labeling of image pairs according to their (commonly) interestingness, which are used as training data to distill the knowledge into a learning-to-rank model. The insights pave the way for a deeper understanding of human interest.

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