System and method for controlling image compression based on image emphasis

摘要

A method to automatically vary the compression of images by ranking images within clusters based upon image emphasis. The ranking process computes one or more quantities related to one or more features in each image. The features can include the content of images. The invention processes the quantities with a reasoning algorithm that is trained based on opinions of one or more human observers. The invention applies the quantities to the images to produce the ranking and variably compresses the images depending upon the ranking. The images having a low ranking and are compressed more than images that have a high ranking.