Generation of collage photos considering of objects

Abstract

Photocollage is the one of application software using photo images. Photo collage application have variety functions and Automatic image layout is one of them. However, the conventional method has the problem that the object in a picture is covered with other pictures. Therefore, in this paper we propose a method that generates a photo collage layout in consideration of subjects in the pictures. Our method extracts subjects form the pictures, decide the stacking order of the pictures and evades of overlaps of subjects each other by using the distance field.