Seam Carving

Augustin Lucas, François Colin de Verdière

Git repo: https://gitea.augustin64.fr/m1-ENSL/seam-carving

The report is available as PDF file report.pdf

References:

• Seam carving for content-aware image resizing

Build

mkdir -p build  # Create build dir if needed
cd build
cmake ..        # Update build/Makefile
make            # Compile
cd ..

Usage

build/seam-carving ...

Mandatory arguments:

• -s FILE: source image
• -o FILE: output image

Options:

• -m FILE: the mask. RGB image, of the same size than the source, red pixel are those to be removed, the green ones must be kept.
• -n NUMBER: number of seams to compute or remove (default 0)
• --show-seams: do not carve the image, only outputs the energy and the relevant seams
• -f FUNCTION NAME: the energy function to use, see the beginning of the source file to see the available functions
• -u: when a mask is provided and no seam number is provided, remove seams until the zone to remove has disappeared.
• --vertical: use vertical seam (horizontal by default)
• --max-step: maximum number of step (distance between two pixel to be removed in two consecutive rows)

Generation of the images of the report

A Makefile is provided at the root of the repo, it can be used to generate the images that are shown in the report.