A content based image retargeting application which was built to improve the user experience of LinkedIn today users.
Demo: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35562043/index.html ( If Chrome blocks the link quoting security reasons, please hit "Load anyway". )
The images on the left side are the default images displayed on LinkedIn Today webpage. They are not rescaled or resized properly. The ones on the right are the result of applying the "retargeting" algorithm on the same set of images.
Reference: Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing. Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir, 2007. http://www.win.tue.nl/~wstahw/2IV05/seamcarving.pdf