In this paper a method that re-targets a video to a different aspect ratio using cropping is presented. We argue that cropping methods are more suitable for video aspect ratio transformation when the minimization of semantic distortions is a prerequisite. For our method, we utilize visual saliency to find the image regions of attention, and we employ a filteringthrough-clustering technique to select the main region of focus. We additionally introduce the first publicly available benchmark dataset for video cropping, annotated by 6 human subjects. Experimental evaluation on the introduced dataset shows the competitiveness of our method.
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