Improved Image Resizing using Seam Carving and scaling

DOI

10.2991/icmt-13.2013.102How to use a DOI?

Keywords

image resizing •saliency map •center distance map •two-dimension search

Abstract

Seam Carving, the popular content-aware image resizing technique, removes or inserts seams of low energy iteratively without sufficiently considering their impact on the global visual quality of the image. However, sometimes seams pass through the regions of interest (ROIs) with low energy and distort the geometric shapes of the important objects. In this paper, we propose an improved resizing method based on improved seam carving method that can prevent the seams going through the ROIs and better preserve the content of the image. With considering frequency-tuned saliency map and the distance to the image center for each pixel in the importance map, it can protect the ROIs when the image is resized to the target size. Moreover, a developed two-dimension search scheme for seam carving and an switching scheme between seam caving and scaling are also proposed to efficiently protect the global visual of the image. Experiments demonstrate that resizing results of the proposed method are more pleasant than those of cropping, uniform scaling and other several methods.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhang Yan
AU  - Sun Jonathan Z.
AU  - Peng Jingliang
PY  - 2013/11
DA  - 2013/11
TI  - Improved Image Resizing using Seam Carving and scaling
BT  - Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Technology(ICMT-13)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 824
EP  - 830
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmt-13.2013.102
DO  - 10.2991/icmt-13.2013.102
ID  - Yan2013/11
ER  -