Abstract
As compared with traditional video retargeting, stereo
video retargeting poses new challenges because stereo
video contains the depth information of salient objects and
its time dynamics. In this work, we propose a depth-aware
stereo video retargeting method by imposing the depth fi-
delity constraint. The proposed depth-aware retargeting
method reconstructs the 3D scene to obtain the depth information of salient objects. We cast it as a constrained optimization problem, where the total cost function includes
the shape, temporal and depth distortions of salient objects.
As a result, the solution can preserve the shape, temporal
and depth fidelity of salient objects simultaneously. It is
demonstrated by experimental results that the depth-aware
retargeting method achieves higher retargeting quality and
provides better user experience