Habibi, ZaynabCaron, GuillaumeMouaddib, El MustaphaGabriele Guidi and Roberto Scopigno and Juan Barceló2016-01-062016-01-062015978-1-5090-0048-7https://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2015.7419464Recent progress in digital technology and its popularity in the context of cultural heritage are contributing to the emergence of several applications using a very large and dense digitization of archaeological sites or historical monuments. Navigation in such virtual environment is difficult especially for novice users. In this paper, we propose a new approach in order to make easier the navigation process by performing an assistive visual framing. This approach exploits a new visual feature: the image saliency-based Gaussian mixture. We applied our method on many different environments and we present the example of the Saint S´ebastien chapel of the cathedral Notre Dame of Amiens. In order to evaluate our method, we present user evaluation and comparison between manual, assistive and automatic framing.visual framingsaliencyGaussian mixture10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2015.7419464