We Tried to Make Seam Carving Fast on a GPU. Then We Proved Why It Can't Be.
Full paper: seam_carving.pdf · Code: YuXiangLo/NTUPDP2026 Joint work with Ya-Chen Wu and Yu-Hsiang Lo, NTU Parallel Programming, Spring 2026. This project was awarded Top 10 in the NTU Parallel and Distributed Programming final project contest (out of 40 teams). Our presentation is embedded below — we start at 38:30. The Starting Point Seam carving is a content-aware image resizing algorithm. Instead of cropping or scaling, it removes the least important pixel paths — seams — from the image, leaving the interesting parts intact. The results look surprisingly good. ...