posted Sep 11, 2012, 6:12 AM by Teng-Yok Lee
http://code.google.com/p/seam-carving-gui/ From the official site: The Seam Carving GUI is a GUI front end to CAIR ,
which is an implementation of Arial Shamir's seam carving algorithm
(aka content aware image resizing, aka image retargeting).
A Little History
I ran into a comment by Andy Owen re the Slashdot article
about Content-Aware Image Resizing and decided his late night hack was
cool enough to deserve an easy to use interface. Besides, after a few
days of seeing the impressive demonstration video about the SIGGRAPH paper on seam carving I found myself wishing I could be doing seam carving on some images of my own.
Thus
version 1.0 through 1.3 of the Seam Carving GUI came to be. Andy has
moved onto other things and I got an email from Brain_Recall (Joe) about
his work on writing a more true-to-the-paper form of the algorithm. His
stuff looked really quite impressive so I egged him on. Once his code
was functionally complete I change the Seam Carving GUI to use CAIR for
the backend. Not only does his code work much better for stretching
images (and in general), but it's also multi-threaded and has a couple
cool new features. So with the new backend, the Seam Carving GUI reached
version 1.4. Since then I have been keeping up with improvements done
in CAIR by Joe and adding features and documentation as requested from
users came in.
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