Abstract:
This demonstration is of an automated method
for creating image collage in a mobile phone. The app creates
semantically meaningful collages from images based on faces,
image saliency and hybrid blending. The algorithm is designed
for computational efficiency inorder for it run on a mobile
device. Due to the increase in the use of social networks, users
are uploading images and videos from social events. Collage
presents a useful crisper summary of the event. It is popular
among users as evident from Layout from Instagram: Collage
app, which has over 100 million downloads. A limitation of
these apps is that they are dependent on the user for selecting
the grid layout and optimal cropping of the images. Our smart
collage over comes these limitations and to the best of our
knowledge this is one of the first mobile based solutions, which
considers the faces and the region importance and later merges
the salient images automatically in a non-rigid grid layout.
Other interesting works either have a semi-rigid [1] or a fully
rigid grid based layout [2] or are desktop based [3].
