A Study of Fast Image Retargeting Method for Arbitrary-shaped Display focused on Continuity of Background

Abstract

For content aware convert from a rectangular image to an arbitrary-shaped image, an image retargeting method is proposed that consists of two phases; moving important regions into the watching region and reconstructing the rest of the image (background), where the latter one is extremely slow. In this paper, we propose a fast method for the reconstruction. Our method is based on the fact that the background is continuous in the original image and it can be determined from the nearest important region. We use graph cut to estimate the background around the important region, and it realizes fast reconstruction.