Seam carving

lastmod 2021-04-20created 2021-04-205 edits

Finds only the unimportant, repeating parts (seams) in an image and shrinks or expands them

Features

• An image resizing method that keeps the size of important parts and removes only the background
• Can also be used with a mask to remove only a specific object
• The JS IMAGE CARVER web app is released as open source (implemented in TypeScript)
• An article that explains how the algorithm basically works and shares the implementation code with detailed comments

Resizing options

Demo

Documentation

Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing

https://perso.crans.org/frenoy/matlab2012/seamcarving.pdf

See also

• JS IMAGE CARVER (js-image-carver)
• Algorithms

Favorite site

• CONTENT-AWARE IMAGE RESIZING IN JAVASCRIPT ¹

References