@ARTICLE{11435629, author={Liang, Dong and Liu, Yifan and Gao, Yuanhang and Huang, Sheng-Jun and Chen, Songcan}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, title={Dual-Branch Aesthetic Image Retouching Via Active Reinforcement Learning for Color Enhancement and Composition Optimization}, year={2026}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-18}, keywords={Image color analysis;Visualization;Optimization;Image enhancement;Brightness;Reinforcement learning;Visual perception;Iterative methods;Mathematical models;Image quality;Active reinforcement learning;automatic aesthetic image retouching;visual experience}, doi={10.1109/TVCG.2026.3674534}}