A computational approach to determination of main subject regions in photographic images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-241

  Luo, Jiebo ^a   Singhal, Amit ^a   Etz, Stephen P ^a   Gray, Robert T ^a  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief networks; Image understanding; Main subject; Observer studies; Region of interest; Saliency; Scalable configuration; Semantic object class

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEMANTICS;

PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES; SCALABLE CONFIGURATION; SEMANTIC OBJECT CLASS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0942277275     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.09.012     Document Type: Article

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