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[bigpeteb]

Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (really damn cool, no technical understand required)

This is why I'm in grad school. The guys behind this are genius-level, as far as I'm concerned; this is the best research I've seen this year.

Comments

[rheavatarin]

Indeed, that is an excellent looking bit of technology.

[falun]

we're implementing a library that does it over the Christmas break, right?

[bigpeteb]

But... but... they've already implemented it as a library...

[falun]

yea -- but they haven't released it and they're trying to monetize it as a photoshop plugin... which we could do too -- for cheaper =)

[oniugnip]

Hey-o. That's kind of awesome. I guess it even works on busy images by just doing the segmenting along the least-busy sections? ...

[bigpeteb]

Actually, it's YMMV. In the paper, they discuss the shortcomings of this method, and one of them is that it doesn't work on particularly images. One example is a very busy picture of an old car; there's not enough unimportant seams around it to remove, so you get a similar result to the letter blocks you saw in the video. Another is a tightly-cropped picture of two lilies on a white background; you can't really remove anything without going through the flowers. So it's really just an alternative to scaling/cropping, not a full replacement.

However, in the general case, it works fairly well.