Hyeonwoo Noh
ABSTRACT
We propose a new energy function for seam carving based on forward gradient differences to preserve regular structures in images. The energy function measures the curvature inconsistency between the pixels that become adjacent after seam removal, and involves the difference of gradient orientation and magnitude of the pixels. Our objective is to minimize the differences induced by the removed seam, and the optimization is performed by dynamic programming based on multiple cumulative energy maps, each of which corresponds to the seam pattern associated with a pixel. The proposed technique preserves straight lines and regular shapes better than the original and improved seam carving, and can be easily combined with other types of energy functions within the seam carving framework. We evaluated the performance of our algorithm by comparing with the original and improved seam carving algorithms using public data.
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- Seam carving with forward gradient difference maps
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