Human-Centric Image Cropping with Partition-Aware and Content-Preserving Features
Bo Zhang, Li Niu, Xing Zhao, Liqing Zhang
Abstract
"Image cropping aims to find visually appealing crops in an image, which is an important yet challenging task. In this paper, we consider a specific and practical application: human-centric image cropping, which focuses on the depiction of a person. To this end, we propose a human-centric image cropping method with two novel feature designs for the candidate crop: partition-aware feature and content-preserving feature. For partition-aware feature, we divide the whole image into nine partitions based on the human bounding box and treat different partitions in a candidate crop differently conditioned on the human information. For content-preserving feature, we predict a heatmap indicating the important content to be included in a good crop, and extract the geometric relation between the heatmap and a candidate crop. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method can perform favorably against state-of-the-art image cropping methods on human-centric image cropping task. Code is available at https://github.com/bcmi/Human-Centric-Image-Cropping."
BibTeX
@inproceedings{eccv2022_humancentricimag,
title = {Human-Centric Image Cropping with Partition-Aware and Content-Preserving Features},
author = {Bo Zhang and Li Niu and Xing Zhao and Liqing Zhang},
booktitle = {ECCV 2022},
year = {2022}
}