%0 Journal Article
%T Picture Collage with Genetic Algorithm and Stereo vision
%A Hesam Ekhtiyar
%A Mahdi Sheida
%A Mahmood Amintoosi
%J Computer Science
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%X In this paper, a salient region extraction method for creating picture collage based on stereo vision is proposed. Picture collage is a kind of visual image summary to arrange all input images on a given canvas, allowing overlay, to maximize visible visual information. The salient regions of each image are firstly extracted and represented as a depth map. The output picture collage shows as many visible salient regions (without being overlaid by others) from all images as possible. A very efficient Genetic algorithm is used here for the optimization. The experimental results showed the superior performance of the proposed method.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1417v1