Abstract:We have developed a novel method for image abstraction which preserves more details present in the salient regions and removes details present in the non-salient regions from the given image of a natural scene. We define a region to be salient based on the saliency measure estimated in the region. We propose to preserve details in salient regions by dividing them into smaller groups of pixels and remove details from non-salient regions by dividing them in larger group of pixels. We achieve this kind of groupin… Show more
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