| Publication Title: |
De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps |
| Publication Author: |
Su, Sara L. |
| Additional Authors: |
Fredo Durand, Maneesh Agrawala |
| LCS Document Number: |
MIT-LCS-TR-987 |
| Publication Date: |
4-12-2005 |
| LCS Group: |
Computer Graphics |
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| Abstract: |
| A major obstacle in photography is the presence of distracting elements that pull attention away from the main subject and clutter the composition. In this article, we present a new image-processing technique that reduces the salience of distracting regions. It is motivated by computational models of attention that predict that texture variation influences bottom-up attention mechanisms. Our method reduces the spatial variation of texture using power maps, high-order features describing local frequency content in an image. We show how modification of power maps results in powerful image de-emphasis. We validate our results using a user search experiment and eye tracking data.
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