Creating personalized documents: an optimization approach
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Document engineering
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Using Genetic Algorithms for Album Page Layouts
IEEE MultiMedia
Blocked recursive image composition
MM '08 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Review of automatic document formatting
Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on Document engineering
Aesthetically-driven layout engine
Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on Document engineering
MMM'08 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Advances in multimedia modeling
Content-aware photo-on-photo composition for consumer photos
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
A compact photo browser for smartphone imaging system with content-sensitive overlapping layout
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
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Photo collages are a popular and powerful storytelling mechanism. They are often enhanced with background artwork that sets the theme for the story. However, layout algorithms for photo collage creation typically do not take this artwork into account, which can result in collages where photos overlay important artwork elements. To address this, we extend our previous Blocked Recursive Image Composition (BRIC) method to allow any number of photos to be automatically arranged around preexisting exclusion zones on a canvas (exBRIC). We first generate candidate binary splitting trees to partition the canvas into regions that accommodate both photos and exclusion zones. We use a Cassowary constraint solver to ensure that the desired exclusion zones are not covered by photos. Finally, photo areas, exclusion zones and layout symmetry are evaluated to select the best candidate. This method provides flexible, dynamic and integrated photo layout with background artwork.