Saliency detection for content-aware image resizing

Content aware image re-targeting methods aim to arbitrarily change image aspect ratios while preserving visually prominent features. To determine visual importance of pixels, existing re-targeting schemes mostly rely on grayscale intensity gradient maps. These maps show higher energy only at edges of objects, are sensitive to noise, and may result in deforming salient objects. In this paper, we present a computationally efficient, noise robust...