Implementing Seam Carving in Digital Image: The Fractal Way

摘要

In this paper, we propose a new method to implement seam carving by inducing the fractal concept. The fractal concept, based in geometry and dimension theory, is one of the areas widely attracting the researcher's interest. The fractals now-a-days is considered to be the key for many scientific and artistic developments. 'Self-similarity' is one of the essential property of the objects which are fractal in nature. Whereas, Seam carving, is one of the most popular techniques for digital image retargeting, with the concept of 'systematic removal of less important pixels' in the core. The technique works by removing seams, which are the paths of least importance, from the digital image. In our work we capitalized the 'self-similarity' properties of fractals to build the seam to be further removed for the purpose of colored digital image retargeting. Our result shows the increased number of seams, which in turn results in efficient image resizing.