Seam Carving

Middlebury College CS453 (Computer Vision) Final Project

Dana Silver and Shannon Ovitt

Final Report

Install OpenCV

On OS X:

$ brew install opencv

• Linux
• Windows

Usage

Non-interactive usage:

$ python seamcarve.py image width height

• image the image to resize
• width the new width for the image, smaller than the image's width
• height the new height for the image, smaller than the image's height

Interactive usage:

$ python seamcarve.py image --interactive

Both options will open a new window that will animate the seams being removed. Press any key when the animation is done to close the window.

See the final report for full implementation details and results.

References

• Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (PDF)
• Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (Project Page)
• Seam carving, Wikipedia