Auto collage
US7529429B2 · kind B2 · utility
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 24, 2006 |
| Grant date | May 5, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 7, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V10/426
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
It is required to provide an automated process for forming a visually appealing digital collage (also referred to as a tapestry or photomontage) from a plurality of input images. Input images and a collage are labeled. Labels in the collage specify which regions of the input images are used to form those collage regions. An energy function is created for the labeling which contains terms that take into account various criteria to produce a collage. For example, those criteria may relate to the amount of information in the images, similarity of the images, entropy in the images or object class information. A multi-stage optimization process is applied to the energy function which is fast and enables large numbers of input images to be used to produce a collage.
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