Measurement of image similarity is a fundamental issue in both image processing and computer vision and is very important for image retargeting applications, which have drawn much attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure with deformation detection of visual salient regions for image retargeting. According to the fact that the human visual system is sensitive...

We propose a novel, interactive content-aware zooming operator that allows effective and efficient visualization of high resolution images on small screens, which may have different aspect ratios compared to the input images. Our approach applies an image retargeting method in order to fit an entire image into the limited screen space. This can provide global, but approximate views for lower zo...

Content-aware image resizing has been a promising theme in the communities of image processing and computer vision. To the best of our knowledge, most existing methods for image resizing are unsupervised. These unsupervised methods may either fail to protect the interesting regions or cause distortion of the image structure. This paper presents a novel learning based method for seam carving by ...

This paper proposes a new contents-based still image protection method which includes a copyright message. The existing method uses random number generator for contents vector generation. Since the existing method is able to select less important pixel, Authentication failure error rate increases in case of authenticating attacked image. In this paper, contents vector consisting of important pi...

A scheme is described for the automatic domain decomposition and creation of overset grids around surface discontinuities. Curves along surface discontinuities are called seam curves. The seam curves are rst automatically extracted from a multiple panel network description of the surface. Points where three or more seam curves meet are automatically identied and are called seam corners. Surface...

We present a global motion planner for tracing curves in three dimensions with robot manipulator tool frames. This planner generates an efficient motion satisfying three types of constraints: constraints on the tool tip for curve tracing, robot kinematic constraints and robotlink collision constraints. Motions are planned using a global search algorithm and a local planner based on a potential-...

In this paper, we propose an improved content-aware image resizing algorithm with protection of main objects. First, we extract three feature maps, namely, saliency map, the enhanced edge map, and the object map for main objects. After that, we integrate these three feature maps to an importance map by the weighted sum. Finally, we construct the target image using the importance map. Experiment...