Seam Carving for Color-Plus-Depth 3D Image

Color-plus-Depth 3D images are booming up with the advance of depth-sensing camera (e.g., Kinect). This new 3D visual content imposes new challenges on image resizing since we have to resize both the color and the depth images simultaneously. In order to resolve these newly introduced challenges of color-plus-depth 3D images, we propose a new energy function with salient depth cues consideration for seam carving operation. We further incorporate super-pixel over-segmentation and depth remapping for achieving an object-based and 3D viewing comfort zone aware resizing framework. Experimental results show the proposed framework can effectively generate the resized images by maintaining the salient regions and providing a comfortable 3D visual perception, at the same time.