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Improved seam carving for structure preservation using efficient energy function

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To reduce the consumption of power and making the handling of display devices easy the manufacturers are reducing the size of the screen. To fit the visual contents into the small screen of display devices without any image deformation development of an efficient image retargeting technique is required. The traditional seam carving technique is widely used to change the aspect ratio of the image. This technique produces the distortions on the prominent line segments when the successive optimal seam starts intersecting at the same location on their structure. In this paper, an improved seam carving technique is proposed which overcomes the limitation of the traditional seam carving technique. The novelty of the proposed technique is to restrict the occurrence of intersection by the optimal seams at the same location on the line structures and bypass them at the nearby locations. To meet this objective the proposed technique performs the energy enhancement operation at the intersection point. To justify the effectiveness of the proposed technique, the obtained results are compared and analyzed using subjective and objective image quality assessment (IQA) methods. In the subjective analysis, the observers provide their opinions about deformations on three quality parameters namely luminance (l), color (c), and structure (s). In the objective assessment, the structural similarity index measure (SSIM) generated various SSIM index values based on these parameters. After the IQA assessment, it is found that the average percentage similarly obtained from the traditional seam carving technique is 64.03% while in the case of the proposed technique it is 70.87%. The high percentage of similarity among all state of art justify the efficiency of the proposed technique.

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Garg, A., Nayyar, A. & Singh, A.K. Improved seam carving for structure preservation using efficient energy function. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 12883–12924 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12003-1

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