, A.Rafega beham

Abstract- Development of novel mobile devices in the electronic world, built the need for developing display unit with appropriate aspect ratio. Image of various size and resolution undergo several modifications to get displayed in varying display size. This modification which is image resizing leads to important detail or content of the image to be lost. Image retargeting considered as the content-aware image resizing become very challenging to achieve visually better image while resizing. In this paper, the various forms of Seam Carving (SC) which indeed referred as a dazzling image retargeting technique are discussed precisely as a survey. For better accomplishments on image retargeting, the seam carving that undergone huge changes for the past is emphasized upon to impart a concise understanding of various models of contemporary seam carving techniques. This paper also provides significant insights into the seam carving technique by exploring its various methodologies and includes a comprehensive survey of the relatively new ground-breaking seam carving models for comparing with the state-of–the-art seam carving models