Updates for the Retargeting GUI

It's always nice to find out a project you threw together is being used. It seems that although other development efforts around the web have sprung up around the content-aware image resizing, people like having a stand-alone, easy to run implementation.

Improvements to this release:

• You can mark areas of the image that you would like to retain/remove with a paint style mouse gesture.
• JPG support (built into the windows binary)
• I am now using the Qt Graphics View Framework, which should make image handing (zooming etc) a bit snappier.
• Update: I got notified of a few bugs, so I fixed those using valgrind
• Update: While I was at it, I implemented copy and paste in windows
  

Still things that could be done:

• Various algorithm speed improvements
• Copy and Paste [Update: completed in latest build]
  
• Anything else you guys suggest

I'm on the lookout for people who have written more efficient and true to the paper seam carving algorithms to improve the back-end. So if you are such a person, or know of such an implementation on the web, give me a heads up.

Again the download links are

• Update: All Downloads Now at the seam-carving-gui project Download Page

Here are some images showing the program in action...

A nice castle image before any retargeting:

Mark areas that we want to remove and we want retain, in this case we want to make sure the castle is not distorted and remove the pesky pedestrian:

The re targeted image, pretty slick eh?

Update: The latest version is no longer based on Andy's implementation but CAIR. See the seam-carving-gui project page for more.