ABSTRACT

Diversified display devices and advancement in image processing techniques have increased the need for content aware resizing of images to fit into display devices of varying resolutions. Traditional resizing methods scaling, cropping, warping are all content unaware methods. Seam Carving has gained popularity in this scenario but it is not without any setbacks. Instead of searching for a single best operator a combination of multiple operators are proposed to benefit from each of these techniques. In this paper we survey such techniques combined with seam carving, which we term Hybrid techniques. We also analyze their efficiencies based on parameters such as content preservation, global visual impacts and computational complexities.