Abstract: Since the traditional seam carving based image resizing methods may destroy the shape and structure of saliency objects in the image,we presented a new image resizing method which can preserve the content and shape and structure of salient objects.The proposed method firstly produces the significant map of clear shape and structure by combining with the classic saliency map and gradient histogram information,and then divides the image into blocks by using the existing significant map.Finally,image can be resized which combines the classic seam resizing method and the resizing method of deformation based on conformal energy according to the significant block size.And the experiments show that the proposed method has better performance in preserving the content and shape and structure of saliency objects than the previous works.

Key words: Saliency map,Shape and structure-preserving,Image resizing