Aesthetic photo composition by optimal crop-and-warp

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 955-965

  Jin, Yong ^a   Wu, Qingbiao ^a   Liu, Ligang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computational aesthetics; Image composition; Image retargeting; Quadratic programming; Triangular mesh

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CROPS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MESH GENERATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTATIONAL AESTHETICS; IMAGE COMPOSITION; IMAGE RETARGETING; LINEAR INEQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; QUADRATIC OPTIMIZATION; SPARSE LINEAR SYSTEMS; TRIANGULAR MESHES; WARPING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84867380927     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2012.07.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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