The initial code here contains algorithms to create seams in an image as described in the Avidan Paper.
The structure is currently set up to run on OSX with OpenCV installed with Homebrew. You should be able to edit code/CMakeList.txt and update OpenCV_LIBS_DIR and OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS with your OpenCV install directory, then compile and run with:
$ cmake .
$ make
$ ./main
It should be fairly straightforward to copy this code over to run with VisualStudio.
Usage: $ ./main [inputImage] [outputImage] [outputWidth] [outputHeight] [seam|histogram]
The 5th option must either be 'seam' or 'histogram' to run the respective methods