Quality assessment of retargeted images by salient region deformity analysis

Displaying images on different devices, requires resizing of the media. Traditional image resizing methods result in quality degradation. Content-aware retargeting algorithms aim to resize images for displaying them on a new device with the goal of preserving important contents of the image. Quality assessment of retargeted images can be employed to choose among outputs of different retargeting methods or help the optimization of such methods. …