Journal of South China University of Technology (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2015, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 51-58.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2015.05.009

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Aesthetic Enhancement of Images Based on Photography Composition Guidelines

Wang Wei-ning Liu Jian-cong Xu Xiang-min Jiang Yi-zi Wang Li   

  1. School of Electronic and Information Engineering，South China University of Technology，Guangzhou 510640，Guangdong，China
  • Received:2014-07-17 Revised:2015-02-25 Online:2015-05-25 Published:2015-05-07
  • Contact: 徐向民(1972-)，男，教授，博士生导师，主要从事人机交互、计算机视觉和 EDA 设计研究． E-mail:xmxu@scut.edu.cn
  • About author:王伟凝(1975-)，女，博士，副教授，主要从事图像处理与模式识别、图像情感分析、图像分类与检索、机器学习研 究． E-mail: wnwang@ scut． edu． cn
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61171142)

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Abstract: With the prevalence of digital cameras and smart phones，people can acquire digital images more and more conveniently． However，normal users are not satisfied with their photos constantly because they are not fami-liar with the professional knowledge of photography． In order to solve this problem，an approach of image aesthetic enhancement，which takes into consideration both the subject and the background layout of an image，is presented．
According to the rules of trisection and visual balance，this approach retargets the subject and resizes the certain part of background in an image to enhance image aesthetic quality by means of subject extraction，region borderline detection，exemplar-based image inpainting，seam carving and subject retargeting． Experimental results show that the proposed approach can enhance the aesthetics of image composition without deforming the salient objects in an image and without losing any image information．

Key words: image enhancement, image aesthetics, composition optimization, exemplar-based image inpainting, seam-carving algorithm

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