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.