How up-to-date is the library with more recent research on seam carving algorithms?

Summary:

In recent years there have been some improvements to the original seam carving algorithm, for example by replacing the energy function. Has this library also looked at/implemented some of those improvements?

How up-to-date is the library with more recent research on seam carving algorithms?

Job van der Zwan (guest) 22 Sep 2014 15:31

In recent years there have been numerous attempts to improveme the original algorithm by replacing the energy function. An early example is the use of "forward energy" instead of "backward energy", while a more recent one uses "forward gradient difference maps." (I originally had links here, but I'm not allowed to post those due to spam restrictions, I suppose)

This naturally leads to the question: what is the energy function used by this library? I'm pretty sure Photoshop still uses the oldest algorithm (!) for its content aware scaling, so major props if you're ahead of Adobe ;)