seamcarver
==========

Content-Aware Image Resizing
----------------------------

Seamcarver is an implementation of Avidan and Shamir's algorithm for
content-aware image resizing [AS07]_. For the details of the
implementation take a look at the paper_. For a nice (and animated)
introduction take a look at the video_.


Installation Instructions
-------------------------

Run::

   ./configure
   make
   make install

To install the python bindings do::

   cd python
   python setup.py build
   python setup.py install

For more details please check `./configure --help` and `python
setup.py --help`.


.. _video: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/IMRet-All.mov
.. _paper: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/imret.pdf
.. [AS07] **Shai Avidan**, **Ariel Shamir**,
          *Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing*.
	  ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26, Number 3,
	  SIGGRAPH 2007
