Seam Carving Algorithm for Maintaining the Shape Structure of Significant Objects

Abstract

Seam carving algorithm can cause the loss of the important content and the destruction of the shape of significant objects in an image. We propose a method that maintains the important content of the image and the shape of significant objects in image scaling. This method combines the gradient graph of an image and the significant graph to redefine the significant energy, which can highlight the important content of the image and maintain the shape of significant objects. The experimental results show that the improved algorithm can better protect the important content in image scaling, and can better maintain the shape structure of the object.