Karve

Karve is a simple Seam Carver. Seam Carving is basically content aware image resizing. The algorithm preserves the objects in the image while less important background space is removed by removing "seams" from the image.

Features

Vertical and Horizontal Seam Carving
"Animate" the Seam Carving Process at varying speeds
Fast carving for moderately sized images
Drag and Drop Images into the application
Removed Seams can be added back onto the image
Object removal and preservation via highlighting
Togglable Seam Highlighting
Togglable GUI updating for faster carving
Backward and Forward Energy Seam Carving
Snapshot current image
Record Seam Carving animation by saving carved image snapshots
Uses all CPU Cores for faster carving
No dependencies!

To start, simply drag and drop the image into the application.

If Karve is carving out areas of the image that you want to keep, you can also mark the image with low and high priority regions.

You can also click on the image itself to mark areas of lower importance. Any areas you left click on will be marked in red and seams will be removed there first.

Similarly, any areas you right click on will be marked in green and the algorithm will avoid those areas of the image.

Button Descriptions

Checkboxes

Button	Description	Key
Show Seams	If selected, shows the seams being added/removed from the image.	`S`
Horizontal	If selected, carves out horizontal seams instead of vertical ones.	`H`
Recording	If selected, saves each carved frame as an image in the `Snapshots` directory.	`R`
Update	If selected, updates the image on the UI. De-select this option for more efficient carving.	`U`

Buttons/Icons

Button	Description	Key
	Indicates carving speed.
	Start/Stop removing/adding seams from the image. The speed of removal is determined by the slider.	`SPACE`
	Add back the most recently removed seam.	`RIGHT ARROW`
	Remove the next seam.	`LEFT ARROW`
	Take a snapshot of the current image.	`C`

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