Saliency guided image-driven simplification

Image-driven simplification has been proposed as a simplification method which generates models with high visual fidelity and factors in the error from mesh appearance properties. We propose to enhance it by improving the preservation of important regions of the simplified mesh. This is done by using image saliency to obtain regional importance of the mesh. Visual inspection shows that visual quality of generated meshes are better than the previous algorithm.

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