Saliency histogram equalisation and its application to image resizing
Hsi‐Chin Hsin · IET Image Processing · 2016
This study presents a novel method for content‐aware image resizing based on the normalised saliency map of an image termed saliency histogram (SH), which provides the probability of a target's presence in the spatial location domain. Motivated by the idea of spreading the histogram of an image on the grey scale known as image histogram equalisation for contrast enhancement, fast SH equalisation (SHE) has been proposed to distribute the content of an image in the resized image domain similarly. Experimental results show that SHE has a tendency to protect salient foreground objects, and it takes only fractions of a second to resize an 1024 × 768 image.