Humans have always sought to achieve aesthetics in art. In this paper, we present a novel approach for retargeting images to different aspect ratios while improving the composition aesthetics of the results. A simpler computational aesthetic energy is proposed and used to drive the salient objects and prominent lines to move towards their corresponding optimal positions. A mesh-based warping sc...

Abundant steeply-dipping thick coal seams (SDTCS) have been found in Xinjiang, China, and they are mined largely by the horizontal section top-coal caving (HSTCC) method. The hanging wall of the HSTCC face is nearly vertical and does not fracture easily after the underlying coal is extracted. As a result, stress tends to concentrate in the hanging wall of the lower-section working face (LSWF) a...

Images play a vital role in steganography, as cover media to hide secret messages. Retargeting becomes mandatory while transmitting image in a heterogeneous network because sender and recipient may not have display devices of same resolution. Resizing images by scaling or cropping also lead to loss of visually important features. In steganography, resizing, compressing, and changing the color o...

Procedural textures often expose a set of parameters controlling their final appearance. This lets end users tune the final look and feel, typically through a set of sliders. However, it is difficult to predict the changes introduced by a given slider, especially as sliders interact in non–trivial ways. We augment the sliders controlling parameters with visual previews revealing the changes tha...

Today’s digital content is displayed on a diverse set of devices, ranging from large monitors of various aspect ratios, to small screens of cell phones or handheld devices. Existing display standards, such as HTML, support the ability to dynamically resize the composition of the page to enable viewing on different display sizes. During this resizing process, images always remain fixed in size. ...

With the development of multimedia technology, image resizing has been raised as a question when the aspect ratio of an examined image should be displayed on a device with a different aspect ratio. Traditional nonuniform scaling for tackling this problemwill lead to distortion. Therefore, content-aware consideration is mostly incorporated in the designing procedure. Such methods generally defin...

Real-world applications could benefit from the ability to automatically retarget an image to different aspect ratios and resolutions, while preserving its visually and semantically important content. However, not all images can be equally well processed that way. In this work, we introduce the notion of image retargetability to describe how well a particular image can be handled by content-awar...

The diversity and versatility of display devices today imposes new demands on digital elevation models (DEMs). This paper proposes a resizing method for 3D visualization of DEMs based on topographic feature. The proposed method improves seaming carving algorithm to resize DEMs instead of images according to the characterristics of DEMs. The proposed resizing method considers not only geometric ...

Content-aware image resizing are effective algorithms that allow to take into account the visual content of images during the resizing process. Despite the technological advances in the context of mobile devices, content-aware image resizing algorithms are still far to be used on a hand held device due to the computational resources needed during the resizing. In this paper we afford this probl...