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Augmented reality (AR) “augments” virtual information over the real-world medium and is emerging as an important type of an information visualization technique. As such, the visibility and readability of the augmented information must be as high as possible amidst the dynamically changing real-world surrounding and background. In this work, we present a technique based on image saliency analysis to improve the conspicuity of the foreground augmentation to the background real-world medium by adjusting the local brightness contrast. The proposed technique is implemented on a mobile platform considering the usage nature of AR. The saliency computation is carried out for the augmented object’s representative color rather than all the pixels, and searching and adjusting over only a discrete number of brightness levels to produce the highest contrast saliency, thereby making real-time computation …