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Rate-dependent seam carving and its application to content-aware image coding

Yuichi Tanaka, Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, Japan, ytnk@cc.tuat.ac.jp , Taichi Yoshida, Keio University, Japan, Madoka Hasegawa, Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, Japan, Shigeo Kato, Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, Japan, Masaaki Ikehara, Keio University, Japan
 
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Yuichi Tanaka, Taichi Yoshida, Madoka Hasegawa, Shigeo Kato and Masaaki Ikehara (2013), "Rate-dependent seam carving and its application to content-aware image coding", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 2: No. 1, e1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2013.3

Publication Date: 27 Feb 2013
© 2013 Yuichi Tanaka, Taichi Yoshida, Madoka Hasegawa, Shigeo Kato and Masaaki Ikehara
 
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Content-aware image coding, Content-aware image resizing, Image retargeting, Image coding, Wavelet, SPIHT
 

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In this article:
I. Introduction 
II Review 
III. RD-SC with Piecewise Approximation 
IV. Wavelet-Based CAIC 
V. Experimental results 
VI. Conclusions 

Abstract

Content-aware image resizing (CAIR) is desired because it preserves prominent regions in a resized image. However, CAIR requires high computational complexity to perform in mobile devices, though it is desired for these displays. Moreover, transmitting the side information for CAIR from the encoder is a problem since it usually requires high bitrates compared with those for image data. In this paper, we present a rate-dependent CAIR method that produce various retargeting results based on the bitrates for side information. Furthermore, we apply the proposed technique to wavelet-based image coding. Our proposed content-aware image coding method provides good performances for both CAIR and image coding.

DOI:10.1017/ATSIP.2013.3