Saliency Based Content-Aware Image Retargeting

Madhura. S. Bhujbal, Pallavi. S. Deshpande

Abstract: Imaging technology is increasing very rapidly with the advent and development of digital image processing. Evolution and popularity of Internet and various display devices have further given an additive hand for this enrichment. Different display sizes and different resolutions of display devices have made image resizing with content preservation i.e. content-aware image resizing, a challenging task. Image Retargeting aims at resizing the image to a target aspect ratio. To enhance content-aware image retargeting, many techniques have been proposed till now, but it cannot be worked out with one single operator/method. Multi-operator approach is best suited and considered for resizing. This project aims at enhancing the quality of content-aware image retargeting approach by finding out saliency of each pixel while retargeting. Spatial domain is selected to achieve better results, as it works on each pixel.

Keywords: Content-aware image retargeting, GVF, saliency, seam carving, seam vector