A Middleware Service for Image Adjustment and Filtering for Small Screens

With the increased use of small screen devices in today´s society, there is an increasing need to access useful information through these devices. Despite the popularity of smartphones, most websites are designed for a desktop computer monitor. Current approaches to make these websites small screen friendly, result in website images being handled in a naive fashion. For example, images are simply resized or removed with no regards to their content or purpose. This paper proposes a middleware service, involving both image analysis and image classification techniques, to determine the purpose of these images within a website. This knowledge can then be used to relocate, resample, resize and/or remove these images accordingly.