Saliency Driven Image Manipulation

Roey Mechrez, Eli Shechtman, Lihi Zelnik-Manor

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Abstract

Have you ever taken a picture only to find out that an unimportant background object ended up being overly salient? Or one of those team sports photos where your favorite player blends with the rest? Wouldn't it be nice if you could tweak these pictures just a little bit so that the distractor would be attenuated and your favorite player will stand-out among her peers? Manipulating images in order to control the saliency of objects is the goal of this paper. We propose an approach that considers the internal color and saliency properties of the image. It changes the saliency map via an optimization framework that relies on patch-based manipulation using only patches from within the same image to maintain its appearance characteristics. Comparing our method to previous ones shows significant improvement, both in the achieved saliency manipulation and in the realistic appearance of the resulting images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2018
Pages1368-1376
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781538648865
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 May 2018
Event18th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2018 - Lake Tahoe, United States
Duration: 12 Mar 201815 Mar 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2018
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference18th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLake Tahoe
Period12/03/1815/03/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Science Applications

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