Automatically Icon Creation
Independent study fall 2002, supervised by Dr. David Jacobs

• Experiment 8: Evaluation after bug fixing and final report, 12/18/02
• Experiment 7: Evaluation, 12/10/02
• Experiment 6: Cut from saliency map, minimum saliency container, 12/05/02
• Experiment 5: Cut from saliency map, naive method, 11/27/02
• Experiment 4: Contrast and Saliency Map Calculation, 11/20/2002
• Experiment 3: Contrast Calculation, continued, 11/13/2002
• Experiment 2: Contrast Calculation, 11/06/2002
• Experiment 1: testify the useness of "clipping" in generate icons

• Clip out background to maximize the display area of foreground.
  (32*32)
  
  
• Example, smallest clear size:
  Before clip (size=96), After clip (size=64),
  
  
• Also, often it's not so easy to clip the picture smart and correctly, example like
  
  
  
• Conformal Mapping
  
  
• Non-Photorealistic
  • athos.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/abstract.html
  • www.cs.utah.edu/npr/
  
  
• Visual Attention
  
  
  

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