A system, method, and computer program product for assigning an aesthetic score to an image. A method of the present invention includes receiving an image. The method further includes executing a neural network on the image to generate learned features. The method further includes applying a machine-learned model to assign an aesthetic score to the image, where a more aesthetically-pleasing image is given a higher aesthetic score and a less aesthetically-pleasing image is given a lower aesthetic score. The learned features are inputs to the machine-learned model.