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Content-Based Visual Summarization for Image Collections


Abstract:

With the surge of images in the information era, people demand an effective and accurate way to access meaningful visual information. Accordingly, effective and accurate ...Show More

Abstract:

With the surge of images in the information era, people demand an effective and accurate way to access meaningful visual information. Accordingly, effective and accurate communication of information has become indispensable. In this article, we propose a content-based approach that automatically generates a clear and informative visual summarization based on design principles and cognitive psychology to represent image collections. We first introduce a novel method to make representative and nonredundant summarizations of image collections, thereby ensuring data cleanliness and emphasizing important information. Then, we propose a tree-based algorithm with a two-step optimization strategy to generate the final layout that operates as follows: (1) an initial layout is created by constructing a tree randomly based on the grouping results of the input image set; (2) the layout is refined through a coarse adjustment in a greedy manner, followed by gradient back propagation drawing on the training procedure of neural networks. We demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of our method via extensive experimental results and user studies. Our visual summarization algorithm can precisely and efficiently capture the main content of image collections better than alternative methods or commercial tools.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ( Volume: 27, Issue: 4, 01 April 2021)
Page(s): 2298 - 2312
Date of Publication: 23 October 2019

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PubMed ID: 31647438

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