  In this paper, a salient region extraction method for creating picture
collage based on stereo vision is proposed. Picture collage is a kind of visual
image summary to arrange all input images on a given canvas, allowing overlay,
to maximize visible visual information. The salient regions of each image are
firstly extracted and represented as a depth map. The output picture collage
shows as many visible salient regions (without being overlaid by others) from
all images as possible. A very efficient Genetic algorithm is used here for the
optimization. The experimental results showed the superior performance of the
proposed method.
