Retargeting Operators

Retargeting operators currently used in our study and benchmark. When applicable, we link to the author's paper and project website. Please refer to the supplemental document for a more detailed description of each method.


1 Cropping
CR
Manually choosing the best window of the target size from the original image
2 Streaming Video
SV
A System for Retargeting of Streaming Video - Krähenbühl et al. 2009
[paper]
3 Mutli-operator
MULTIOP
Multi-operator Media Retargeting - Rubinstein et al. 2009
[paper] [website]
4 Seam Carving
SC
Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting - Rubinstein et al. 2008
[paper] [website] [code]
5 Scaling
SCL
non-uniform scaling with bi-cubic interpolation
6 Shift-maps
SM
Shift-Map Image Editing - Pritch et al. 2009
[paper] [website]
7 Scale-and-Stretch
SNS
Optimized Scale-and-Stretch for Image Resizing - Wang et al. 2008
[paper] [website]
8 Nonhomogeneous
warping
WARP
Non-homogeneous Content-driven Video-retargeting. Wolf et al. 2007
[paper] [website]
9 Energy-based deformation
LG
Energy-Based Image Deformation. Karni et al. 2009
[paper]
10 Quadratic Programming
QP
Content-Aware Image Resizing by Quadratic Programming. Freedman et al. 2010
[paper]
11 Object Size Adjusted OSA A Content-Aware Image Resizing Method with Prominent Object Size Adjusted. Meiling et al. 2010

* LG and QP were not used in this study as we received their results while the survey was already taking place. However, the results are still included in the benchmark for the benefit of future studies.