Chapter 7. Seam Carving
In this chapter, we are going to learn about content-aware image resizing, which is also known as seam carving. We will discuss how to detect "interesting" parts in an image and how to use that information to resize a given image without deteriorating those interesting parts.
By the end of this chapter, you will know:
- What is content awareness
- How to quantify "interesting" parts in an image
- How to use dynamic programming for image content analysis
- How to increase and decrease the width of an image without deteriorating the interesting regions while keeping the height constant
- How to make an object disappear from an image