Csc2530: Computer Vision for Advanced Digital Photography Reaction Report: Seam Carving for Content-aware Image Resizing (03/03/2008)

The major contribution of this paper is the use and define energy functions that study the visual features, such as image gradients, to preserve the important content of an image. Classical methods of resizing or cropping images have limitations in the sense that they distort or cut important regions of an image. By applying higher energy around pixels containing faces and lower energy for background, we can define a function that preserves pixels of an image by removing the other pixels that do not have much contribution. Moreover, this method of resizing images can be done automatically with options for artistic interaction. It is a particularly important method because the intuitive nature of the algorithm and of its inputs achieves resizing results quickly while minimizing unwanted distortions in the important areas of an image. Most importantly, the intuitive nature of the algorithm allows it to be used by the casual user.