19.4.4.4.1 Seam Carving, Seam Carving Detection

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Resizing. Seam Carving. Image Manipulation. Forgery. 2609
Content aware image resizing.
See also Forgery Detection for Images.
See also Tamper Detection, Image Manipulation Detection, Forensics. Sometimes used for:
See also Cursive Script, Historical Documents, Text Line Segmentation, Script Line, Segmentation, Text Line Extraction.
See also Image Based Rendering for Retargeting.

Chen, D.Y.[Duan-Yu], Luo, Y.S.[Yi-Shiou],
Content-aware video resizing based on salient visual cubes,
JVCIR(22), No. 3, April 2011, pp. 226-236.
Elsevier DOI 1103
Seam carving, Visual cubes, Spatiotemporal analysis, Visual attention; Video resizing, Content aware, Visual continuity, Video dynamics BibRef

Luo, S.Q.[Si-Qiang], Zhang, J.P.[Jun-Ping], Zhang, Q.[Qian], Yuan, X.R.[Xiao-Ru],
Multi-operator image retargeting with automatic integration of direct and indirect seam carving,
IVC(30), No. 9, September 2012, pp. 655-667.
Elsevier DOI 1210
Image resizing, Multi-operator, Seam carving, Cropping method, Image similarity BibRef

Shen, J., Wang, D., Li, X.,
Depth-Aware Image Seam Carving,
Cyber(43), No. 5, 2013, pp. 1453-1461.
IEEE DOI 1309
Cameras. Preserve salient objects when changing size. Just noticeable difference model. Depth map used for seam carving. BibRef

Yan, B., Sun, K., Liu, L.,
Matching-Area-Based Seam Carving for Video Retargeting,
CirSysVideo(23), No. 2, February 2013, pp. 302-310.
IEEE DOI 1301
BibRef

Basha, T.D.[Tali Dekel], Moses, Y.[Yael], Avidan, S.[Shai],
Stereo Seam Carving a Geometrically Consistent Approach,
PAMI(35), No. 10, 2013, pp. 2513-2525.
IEEE DOI 1309
BibRef
Earlier:
Geometrically consistent stereo seam carving,
ICCV11(1816-1823).
IEEE DOI 1201
Image retargeting, adapt without distorting. Algorithm design and analysis BibRef

Wei, J.D.[Jyh-Da], Lin, Y.J.[Yu-Ju], Wu, Y.J.[Yi-Jing],
A patch analysis method to detect seam carved images,
PRL(36), No. 1, 2014, pp. 100-106.
Elsevier DOI 1312
Seam carving is a content-aware image processing algorithm that has been successfully applied to resizing and deliberately removing objects from digital images. BibRef

Ryu, S.J.[Seung-Jin], Lee, H.Y.[Hae-Yeoun], Lee, H.K.[Heung-Kyu],
Detecting Trace of Seam Carving for Forensic Analysis,
IEICE(E97-D), No. 5, May 2014, pp. 1304-1311.
WWW Link. 1405
BibRef

Li, K.[Ke], Yan, B.[Bo], Li, J.[Jun], Majumder, A.[Aditi],
Seam carving based aesthetics enhancement for photos,
SP:IC(39, Part C), No. 1, 2015, pp. 509-516.
Elsevier DOI 1601
Seam carving BibRef

Li, K.[Ke], Yan, B.[Bo], Wang, W.Y.[Wei-Yi], Gharavi, H.,
An Effective Video Synopsis Approach with Seam Carving,
SPLetters(23), No. 1, January 2016, pp. 11-14.
IEEE DOI 1601
object tracking BibRef

Zhang, D.Y.[Deng-Yong], Yin, T.[Ting], Yang, G.B.[Gao-Bo], Xia, M.[Ming], Li, L.[Leida], Sun, X.M.[Xing-Ming],
Detecting image seam carving with low scaling ratio using multi-scale spatial and spectral entropies,
JVCIR(48), No. 1, 2017, pp. 281-291.
Elsevier DOI 1708
Image forensics BibRef

Liu, Q.Z.[Qing-Zhong],
An approach to detecting JPEG down-recompression and seam carving forgery under recompression anti-forensics,
PR(65), No. 1, 2017, pp. 35-46.
Elsevier DOI 1702
BibRef
Earlier:
Exposing seam carving forgery under recompression attacks by hybrid large feature mining,
ICPR16(1041-1046)
IEEE DOI 1705
Discrete cosine transforms, Feature extraction, Forgery, Image coding, Image forensics, Medical services, Transform coding, big feature mining, image forgery, recompression, seam carving. BibRef

Liu, Q.Z.[Qing-Zhong],
An Improved Approach to Exposing JPEG Seam Carving Under Recompression,
CirSysVideo(29), No. 7, July 2019, pp. 1907-1918.
IEEE DOI 1907
Transform coding, Forgery, Feature extraction, Image coding, Correlation, Mathematical model, Medical services, JPEG, recompression BibRef

Shafieyan, F., Karimi, N., Mirmahboub, B., Samavi, S., Shirani, S.,
Image retargeting using depth assisted saliency map,
SP:IC(50), No. 1, 2017, pp. 34-43.
Elsevier DOI 1612
BibRef
And:
Image seam carving using depth assisted saliency map,
ICIP14(1155-1159)
IEEE DOI 1502
Image retargeting. Cameras BibRef

Zhou, B.[Bin], Wang, X.Y.[Xuan-Yin], Cao, S.X.[Song-Xiao], Xiang, K.[Ke], Zhao, S.[Shuo],
Optimal bi-directional seam carving for compressibility-aware image retargeting,
JVCIR(41), No. 1, 2016, pp. 21-30.
Elsevier DOI 1612
Image retargeting BibRef

Patel, D.[Diptiben], Raman, S.[Shanmuganathan],
Accelerated seam carving for image retargeting,
IET-IPR(13), No. 6, 10 May 2019, pp. 885-895.
DOI Link 1906
BibRef

Furuta, R.[Ryosuke], Tsubaki, I.[Ikuko], Yamasak, T.[Toshihiko],
Fast Volume Seam Carving With Multipass Dynamic Programming,
CirSysVideo(28), No. 5, May 2018, pp. 1087-1101.
IEEE DOI 1805
BibRef
Earlier: ICIP16(1818-1822)
IEEE DOI 1610
Heuristic algorithms, Image quality, Memory management, Minimization, Surface treatment, video retargeting Cost function. Graph cut process is expensive. BibRef

Hsin, H.C.[Hsi-Chin],
Video retargeting based on SH equalisation and seam carving,
IET-IPR(13), No. 8, 20 June 2019, pp. 1333-1340.
DOI Link 1906
BibRef

Patel, D.[Diptiben], Nagar, R.[Rajendra], Raman, S.[Shanmuganathan],
Reflection symmetry aware image retargeting,
PRL(125), 2019, pp. 179-186.
Elsevier DOI 1909
Image retargeting, Reflection symmetry, Object proposal, Seam carving BibRef

Patel, D.[Diptiben], Raman, S.[Shanmuganathan],
Object occlusion guided stereo image retargeting,
PRL(125), 2019, pp. 798-805.
Elsevier DOI 1909
Stereo imaging, Object occlusion, Geometric consistency, Seam carving BibRef

Kaur, H.[Harpreet], Kour, S.[Swarnjeet], Sen, D.[Debashis],
Video retargeting through spatio-temporal seam carving using Kalman filter,
IET-IPR(13), No. 11, 19 September 2019, pp. 1862-1871.
DOI Link 1909
BibRef
Earlier:
Prediction based seam carving for video retargeting,
ICPR16(877-882)
IEEE DOI 1705
Covariance matrices, Current measurement, Energy measurement, Estimation, Kalman filters, Mathematical model, Nonlinear distortion, Kalman filter, seam carving, temporal coherency, video, retargeting BibRef

Cheng, H., Wei, J., Lin, C., Ye, J.,
Detecting Seam-Carved Image by Extreme Learning Machines Using Patch Analysis Method, Jury Voting, and Combinatorial Fusion,
SMCS(50), No. 5, May 2020, pp. 1850-1864.
IEEE DOI 2005
Support vector machines, Feature extraction, Task analysis, Training, Testing, Neurons, Nonlinear distortion, support vector machine (SVM) BibRef

Mukherjee, P.[Prerana], Lall, B.[Brejesh],
Conditional Random Field based salient proposal set generation and its application in content aware seam carving,
SP:IC(87), 2020, pp. 115890.
Elsevier DOI 2007
object edge density. Structured prediction, Edge classification, Salient edge density based scoring, Salient region preserving seam carving BibRef

Nam, S.H.[Seung-Hun], Ahn, W.[Wonhyuk], Yu, I.J.[In-Jae], Kwon, M.J.[Myung-Joon], Son, M.[Minseok], Lee, H.K.[Heung-Kyu],
Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Identifying Seam-Carving Forgery,
CirSysVideo(31), No. 8, August 2021, pp. 3308-3326.
IEEE DOI 2108
Forgery, Visualization, Image color analysis, Convolutional neural networks, Image forensics, Distortion, local artifact detection BibRef

Guo, Y.C.[Ying-Chun], Wang, D.[Dan], Zhu, Y.[Ye], Yan, G.[Gang],
Multi-operator Image Retargeting based on Saliency Object Ranking and Similarity Evaluation Metric,
SP:IC(119), 2023, pp. 117063.
Elsevier DOI 2310
Image Retargeting, Seam carving, Uniform scaling, Energy transfer rule, Saliency Object Ranking BibRef

Zhang, D.Y.[Deng-Yong], Lv, Z.Y.[Zhen-Yu], Li, F.[Feng], Ding, X.L.[Xiang-Ling], Yang, G.[Gaobo],
A convolutional neural network based on noise residual for seam carving detection,
JVCIR(100), 2024, pp. 104135.
Elsevier DOI 2405
Image forensic, Seam carving, Deep learning, Local noise in-consistency BibRef


Moreira, T.P.[Thierry P.], Santana, M.C.S.[Marcos Cleison S.], Passos, L.A.[Leandro A.], Papa, J.P.[Joćo Paulo], da Costa, K.A.P.[Kelton Augusto P.],
An End-to-End Approach for Seam Carving Detection Using Deep Neural Networks,
IbPRIA22(447-457).
Springer DOI 2205
BibRef

Gudavalli, C.[Chandrakanth], Rosten, E.[Erik], Nataraj, L.[Lakshmanan], Chandrasekaran, S.[Shivkumar], Manjunath, B.S.,
SeeTheSeams: Localized Detection of Seam Carving based Image Forgery in Satellite Imagery,
WMF22(1-11)
IEEE DOI 2210
Location awareness, Measurement, Satellites, Image coding, Roads BibRef

Nam, S., Ahn, W., Mun, S., Park, J., Kim, D., Yu, I., Lee, H.,
Content-Aware Image Resizing Detection Using Deep Neural Network,
ICIP19(106-110)
IEEE DOI 1910
Forensics, Content-aware image resizing, Seam carving, Seam insertion, Convolutional neural networks BibRef

Ye, J.Y.[Jing-Yu], Shi, Y.X.[Yu-Xi], Xu, G.S.[Guan-Shuo], Shi, Y.Q.[Yun-Qing],
A Convolutional Neural Network Based Seam Carving Detection Scheme for Uncompressed Digital Images,
IWDW18(3-13).
Springer DOI 1905
BibRef

Li, C., Hu, R., Liang, C., Xiao, C., Ruan, W.,
Faster Seam Carving for Video Retargeting,
ICIP18(823-827)
IEEE DOI 1809
Coherence, Genetic algorithms, Computational complexity, Spatial coherence, Sociology, Statistics, Visualization, computational complexity BibRef

Lin, Y.Q.[Yu-Qing], Niu, Y.Z.[Yu-Zhen], Zhang, S.[Shuai], Chen, J.H.[Jun-Hao],
Anisotropic energy accumulation for stereoscopic image seam carving,
IC3D17(1-7)
IEEE DOI 1804
edge detection, feature extraction, image resolution, image segmentation, stereo image processing, stereo seam carving BibRef

Nguyen, T.V., Gao, G.,
Novel evaluation metrics for seam carving based image retargeting,
ICIP17(450-454)
IEEE DOI 1803
Benchmark testing, Computational modeling, Image edge detection, Measurement, Shape, Task analysis, Visualization, Image Retargeting, Visual Saliency BibRef

Ye, J.Y.[Jing-Yu], Shi, Y.Q.[Yun-Qing],
A Hybrid Feature Model for Seam Carving Detection,
IWDW17(77-89).
Springer DOI 1708
BibRef
Earlier:
A Local Derivative Pattern Based Image Forensic Framework for Seam Carving Detection,
IWDW16(172-184).
Springer DOI 1703
BibRef

Taspinar, S.[Samet], Mohanty, M.[Manoranjan], Memon, N.[Nasir],
PRNU based source attribution with a collection of seam-carved images,
ICIP16(156-160)
IEEE DOI 1610
Photo Response Non-Uniformity. Source Camera verification. BibRef

Mishra, A.[Akshaya], Scharfenberger, C.[Christian], Siva, P.[Parthipan], Li, F.[Fan], Wong, A.[Alexander], Clausi, D.[David],
DESIRe: Discontinuous energy seam carving for image retargeting via structural and textural energy functionals,
ICIP15(3685-3689)
IEEE DOI 1512
BibRef
And: ICIP15(3695-3699)
IEEE DOI 1512
Discontinuous; Energy functional; Seam Carving; Structure; Texture BibRef

Oliveira, S.A.F.[Saulo A. F.], Bezerra, F.N.[Francisco N.], Neto, A.R.R.[Ajalmar R. Rocha],
Genetic Seam Carving: A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Content-Aware Image Retargeting,
IbPRIA15(700-707).
Springer DOI 1506
BibRef

Siva, P.[Parthipan], Scharfenberger, C.[Christian], Ben Daya, I.[Ibrahim], Mishra, A.[Akshaya], Wong, A.[Alexander],
Return of grid seams: A superpixel algorithm using discontinuous multi-functional energy seam carving,
ICIP15(1334-1338)
IEEE DOI 1512
Discontinuous; Multi-functional; Seam Carving; Superpixels BibRef

Yan, B.[Bo], Gao, Y.[Yiqi], Sun, K.[Kairan], Yang, B.[Bo],
Efficient seam carving for object removal,
ICIP13(1331-1335)
IEEE DOI 1402
Educational institutions BibRef

Qi, S.Y.[Shao-Yu], Ho, J.[Jeffrey],
Shift-Map Based Stereo Image Retargeting with Disparity Adjustment,
ACCV12(IV:457-469).
Springer DOI 1304
BibRef
And:
Seam Segment Carving: Retargeting Images to Irregularly-Shaped Image Domains,
ECCV12(VI: 314-326).
Springer DOI 1210
BibRef

Pan, G.[Gang], Li, W.S.[Wei-Shu], Bai, W.[Wei], Chen, J.Y.[Jin-Yan], Li, L.Y.[Lu-Yuan],
Reverse Seam Carving,
ICIG11(50-55).
IEEE DOI 1109
Content aware resizing (reduction and expansion). BibRef

Grundmann, M.[Matthias], Kwatra, V.[Vivek], Han, M.[Mei], Essa, I.A.[Irfan A.],
Discontinuous seam-carving for video retargeting,
CVPR10(569-576).
IEEE DOI 1006
BibRef

Domingues, D.[Daniel], Alahi, A.[Alexandre], Vandergheynst, P.[Pierre],
Stream carving: An adaptive seam carving algorithm,
ICIP10(901-904).
IEEE DOI 1009
BibRef

Utsugi, K.[Kei], Shibahara, T.[Takuma], Koike, T.[Takafumi], Takahashi, K.[Keita], Naemura, T.[Takeshi],
Seam carving for stereo images,
3DTV10(1-4).
IEEE DOI 1006
Stereo image editing. Delete seams of less important pixels for resizing. BibRef

Han, J.W.[Jong-Woo], Choi, K.S.[Kang-Sun], Wang, T.S.[Tae-Shick], Cheon, S.H.[Sung-Hyun], Ko, S.J.[Sung-Jea],
Wavelet based seam carving for content-aware image resizing,
ICIP09(345-348).
IEEE DOI 0911
BibRef

Koo, H.I.[Hyung Il], Kuk, J.G.[Jung Gap], Cho, N.I.[Nam Ik],
Eliminating structure misalignments using robust matching and image editing based on seam carving,
ICIP09(209-212).
IEEE DOI 0911
Stitching issues. BibRef

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