The algorithm definitely has issues with faces. One part I didn't get into is artificial weights. The original paper discusses "painting" certain regions of th

The algorithm definitely has issues with faces. One part I didn't get into is artificial weights. The original paper discusses "painting" certain regions of the image as high energy, driving seams away from those regions. This ties into faces when the paper suggests face detection to automatically paint faces with high energy, avoiding these issues in the first place!