Parallel Seam Carving

Aditya Bist, Vinay Palakkode

Our final project for the course 15-418: Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming

Seam Carving is a content-aware image resizing algorithm developed by Shai Avidan, of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), and Ariel Shamir, of the Interdisciplinary Center and MERL.^[1] Check out the demo here. For the final writeup of the project, click here.

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In order to get a feel of how different the outputs are when using seam carving over scaling kindly drag the-border of the images below towards the left. This would retarget the image by seamcarving (on the left image) and by scaling on the right image. It is worth a note to see the images with a lot of content spread across the entire space of the image would not be benefited by seam carving. In the opposite case scaling results in poor retargeting.

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