Personalized imaging: moving closer to reality
Hengzhou Ding, Raja Bala, Zhigang Fan, Charles A. Bouman, Jan P. Allebach · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2011
The availability of web and on-line image sharing services makes image personalization and customization a more interesting topic. Nonetheless, designing a personalized image is a time-consuming task, requiring hours of work by expert designers. Observing the potential opportunity to make the design process easier and more amenable to ordinary users, we presented a semi-automatic tool for designing personalized images in the Electronic Imaging (EI) symposium last year.1, 2 As a follow-up, we present several improvements to the original semi-automatic tool, for both text insertion and text replacement on planar surfaces. We also describe our effort in implementing the tool as a true web-based service, which eliminates the need for installation of any software or packages by the user. We believe that we have made the technology of image personalization more friendly and accessible to ordinary users.