关键词: 图像缩放, 内容感知, 美学原则, Seam Carving算法

Abstract: The lack of considering aesthetic values is the major drawback of existing image resizing algorithms. To deal with this problem, a content aware image resizing algorithm using aesthetic rules is proposed. Firstly, the importance map of the original image is computed via image co-segmentation and visual saliency detection so as to prevent important objects in the image from distortion in the subsequent treatment process. Then, specific aesthetic rules and the corresponding quantization formulas for two common types of images in a mobile terminal are established. Finally, the algorithm performs the operations of seam carving using the aesthetic rules and the importance map to resize the image. The results show that the proposed algorithm, while preserving image information, achieves better performance in terms of aesthetics than a number of other image resizing algorithms.