The following problem appeared as an assignment in the Algorithm Course (COS 226) at Princeton University taught by Prof. Sedgewick. The following description of the problem is taken from the assignment itself.
The Seam Carving Problem
- Seam-carving is a content-aware image resizing technique where the image is reduced in size by one pixel of height (or width) at a time.
- A vertical seam in an image is a pathof pixels connected from the top to the bottom with one pixel in each row.
- A horizontal seam is a path of pixels connected from the left to the right with one pixel in each column.
- Although the underlying algorithm (the original paper from MERL) is simple and elegant, it was not discovered until 2007. Now, it is now a core feature in Adobe Photoshop and other computer graphics applications.
- Unlike standard content-agnostic resizing…
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