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This research presents an automatic image/frame cropping scheme to preserve the regions of interest in imagery data. First, a blur detection based on Structural Similarity (SSIM) is proposed to identify whether an image contains a blurred background and the sharp foreground objects can then be extracted. The visual saliency is further calculated to help remove insignificant boundaries. Some pre-defined...