Perspective dragging: quick area selection in photos

  • Authors:
  • Frank Nielsen

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Posters
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Photos often exhibit many perspectively slanted planar parts like buildings, roads, or shop signages. We present an intuitive user interface to quickly select areas in photos using perspective dragging. When loading an image, our system preliminary hierarchically segments regions that are potentially interpreted as perspective quads. During an interactive image editing session, whenever a user selects an area by first clicking a corner and then dragging the diagonally opposite corner, the system proposes a perspective sub-rectangle matching the dragged diagonal defined according to the segmented quad containing this diagonal. We illustrate the perspective click-and-drag selection with common image editing operations.