A Synaesthetic Approach for Image Slideshow Generation

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel automatic image slideshow system that explores a new medium between images and music. It can be regarded as a new image selection and slideshow composition criterion. Based on the idea of ``hearing colors, seeing sounds" from the art of music visualization, equal importance is assigned to image features and audio properties for better synchronization. We minimize the aesthetic energy distance between visual and audio features. Given a set of images, a subset is selected by correlating image features with the input audio properties. The selected images are then synchronized with the music subclips by their audio-visual distance. The inductive image displaying approach has been introduced for common displaying devices.