Method for creating photo cutouts and collages
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsJiebo Luo, Kenneth A. Arnold
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Abstract
A method for automatically producing a new digital image from a first digital image that includes regions of interest, includes obtaining a main subject belief map including an array of belief values indicating the location and relative importance of subject matter in the first digital image; producing a mask for each privileged object in the first digital image, each such mask including margins around its corresponding privileged object; overlaying the mask(s) onto the belief map; and producing a first convex hull that includes the mask(s) with margin(s) and regions of the highest belief values from the belief map.
Claims18
A method for automatically producing a new digital image from digital images that includes regions of interest, comprising:
- (a) using a processor to obtain a main subject belief map including an array of belief values that indicate the location and relative importance of subject matter in each of at least two digital images;
- (b) using one or more thresholds along with the belief maps to locate one or more privileged objects in each digital image;
- (c) producing a mask for each privileged object, each such mask including margins around its corresponding privileged object;
- (d) producing a convex hull for each mask that includes the mask with margin(s) and regions of highest belief values from the associated belief map;
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- (e) producing the new digital image including portions of each digital image based upon each associated convex hull.
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