Content Aware Image Resizing

August 28, 2007 on 8:35 am | | In General, Imaging, Research | 4 Comments

A small buzz around content aware image resizing has hit the media. This is fully understandable if you watch the short but impressive presentation.

More information as well as the paper describing the approach can be found on Ariel Shamir’s Homepage. The paper (20.48 MB) is available at ACM:

Avidan, S. & Shamir, A. Seam carving for content-aware image resizing SIGGRAPH ‘07: ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers, ACM Press, 2007, 10

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  1. [...] of the Content Aware Image Resizing algorithm (presented by Avidan, S. & Shamir, A.) shown here (covered also on Slashdot, Techcrunch, …) in Java (GPL). Currently image size can only be [...]

    Pingback by SemanticMetadata.net » Content Aware Image Resizing: GPL Implementation — August 30, 2007 #

  2. Hi,
    If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget

    The program that you can download there (for Windows and Linux, and free) is already highly optimized concerning speed, and apart from enlarging or decreasing image size you can also use masks to protect or delete certain parts of your image.

    Have fun,
    Irmgard

    Comment by Irmgard — September 25, 2007 #

  3. Hi Irmgard,

    As I’ve also implemented the retargeting (GPL-ed youl’ll find it here on the site) I’d like to take a look at the source :)

    cheers,
    Mathias

    Comment by Mathias Lux — September 25, 2007 #

  4. Check out rsizr.com for a free Flash-based implementation of seam carving that lets you resize your own images, both in height and width simultaneously, in real time. (You can rescale and crop images too!)

    http://rsizr.com/about/gallery/ for example images

    Comment by Will — September 29, 2007 #

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