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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Mayur Datar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Huei-Hung Christopher Liao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vivek Kwatra, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Allen Huang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In some instances, an image may have dimensions that do not correspond to a slot to display the image. For example, an image content item may have dimensions that do not correspond to a content item slot. The image may be resized using seam carving to add or remove pixels of the image. A saliency map for the image may be used having saliency scores for each pixel of the image. Evaluation metrics may be used before, during, and after, seam carving to determine whether salient content is affected by the seam carving. In some instances, a seam cost threshold value may be used for adaptive step size during the seam carving. The resized image may then be outputted, such as for an image content item to be served with a resource.