Wavelet-based content-aware image coding with rate-dependent seam carving

This paper proposes an image coding method incorporated with content-aware image resizing. It is a promising application of our previously proposed rate-dependent seam carving (RD-SC). RD-SC is combined with lifting-based discrete wavelet transform to construct a new multiresolution image representation. Furthermore, the modified parent-children relationship of SPIHT is shown. Our proposed image coding presents comparable performances to the conventional SPIHT even for the original size, and retargeted image quality is satisfactory.