For redundancy chaos, and the lack of representation of group observers' scanpath data in natural scenes, by mining the potential characteristics of individual scanpaths, a method for group scanpath generation based on fixation Regions of Interest (ROI) spatial temporal clustering and transferring was proposed. Firstly, multiple observers' scanpaths under the same stimulus sample were analyzed, and multiple fixation regions of interest were generated by utilizing affinity propagation clustering algorithm to cluster the fixation points. Then, the statistics and analysis of the information related to fixation intensity such as the number of observers, fixation frequency and lasting time were carried out and the regions of interest were filtered. Afterwards, the subregions of interest with different types were extracted via defining fixation behaviors in the regions of interest. Finally, the transformation mode of regions and subregions of interest was proposed on the basis of fixation priority, so as to generate the group scanpath in natural scenes. The group scanpath generation experiments were conducted on two public datasets MIT1003 and OSIE. The results show that compared with the state-of-the-art methods, such as eMine, Scanpath Trend Analysis (STA), Sequential Pattern Mining Algorithm (SPAM), Candidate-constrained Dynamic time warping Barycenter Averaging method (CDBA) and Heuristic, the proposed method has the group scanpath generated of higher entirety similarity indexes with ScanMatch (w/o duration) reached 0.426 and 0.467 respectively, and ScanMatch (w/duration) reached 0.404 and 0.439 respectively. It can be seen that the scanpath generated by the proposed method has high overall similarity to the real scanpath, and has a certain function of representation.

The original New Edge-Directed Interpolation (NEDI) algorithm is of high complexity, difficult for hardware implementation, and the interpolated images may suffer from blurring edges around edge area. To achieve a better subjective quality, an improved NEDI algorithm was proposed in this paper. In the new algorithm, a circular window was adopted, and the interpolation coefficient calculation was calculated only once, which could be reused in interpolating the center-pixels, thus the errors introduced by iterative computation were avoided and the interpolation time was saved. As to non-center pixels, six original neighbors were involved to estimate local covariance characteristics at high resolution. In comparison with the results of bi-cubic interpolation and the traditional NEDI, the experimental results indicate that proposed algorithm can eliminate the sawtooth of the interpolated picture in large-scale, and decrease the computational complexity.