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Image resizing via non-homogeneous warping

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Image resizing aims to adapt images to displays with different sizes and aspect ratios. In this paper, we provide a new image resizing approach for efficiently determining the non-homogeneous warp that better preserves the global image configuration and concentrates the distortion in regions of the image where they are least-likely to be noticed. Considering the different properties of large displays and small displays, we design different strategies for upsizing and downsizing. We define a variety of quadratic metrics to measure image distortion. We introduce a patch-linking scheme that can better preserve the global image configuration. We formulate image resizing as a quadratic minimization problem, which can be efficiently solved. We experiment with our method on a variety category of images and compare our results to the state of the art.

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We would like to thank the reviewers for their insightful and constructive comments. This research was sponsored in part by NSF grant IIS-0416284.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250101, China

    Yuzhen Niu & Xueqing Li

  2. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Feng Liu & Michael Gleicher

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Niu, Y., Liu, F., Li, X. et al. Image resizing via non-homogeneous warping. Multimed Tools Appl 56, 485–508 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0613-0

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