id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_k4yggdeepjewra4b364sh36qle Stas Goferman Puzzle-like Collage 2010 10 .pdf application/pdf 6234 628 69 Prior work on automating collage creation extracts rectangular salient regions and assembles them in various fashions [RBHB06,WSQ∗06,BCG∗07,Pic]. This produces beautiful collages, however, since the extracted regions are rectangular, the variety of possible compositions is limited and For the former we propose an algorithm that extracts nonrectangular regions that coincide with the meaningful information – object boundaries and salient background features Figure 2: Our collage construction framework applied to an image collection describing highlights of the 2008 Olympic games. Given a collection of images, we wish to construct an informative, compact, and visually appealing collage. images, both professional and non-professional, the informative regions consist of both foreground as well as background pixels that provide the context. A set of additional, however optional, parameters such as the desired aspect ratio of the final collage, the amount of allowed overlap, preferences of ROIs (importance weights between 0 and ./cache/work_k4yggdeepjewra4b364sh36qle.pdf ./txt/work_k4yggdeepjewra4b364sh36qle.txt