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Visual Balance Measurement

Visual Balance Measurement is a computational method for assessing compositional equilibrium in images and designs. Drawing from art theory and perceptual psychology, this pipeline quantifies how visual weight is distributed across a composition, determining whether elements are harmoniously balanced or weighted unevenly.

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  1. Balakrishnan, M., & Itti, L. (2008). Computational Assessment of Compositional Balance in Visual Art. ACM Multimedia Conference Proceedings, 381–390. DOI: 10.1145/1459410.1459500
  2. Zhang, L., Zhang, B., & He, H. (2015). Contiguous Motion Segmentation using Center-Biased Feature Subspaces. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 37(5), 1074–1086. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2362783
  3. Arnheim, R. (1974). Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. University of California Press. ISBN: 978-0520243835

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ScholarGateVisual Balance Measurement (Visual Balance Measurement). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/visual-arts/visual-balance-measurement