Wow. Pretty nerdy sounding, but this technology is quite impressive, and could be incredibly useful for aspect ratio conversion, object removal, rescaling, etc.
The object removal is very very impressive. I can think of a bunch of interesting uses for this, especially if you artificially mess with the weights for effect only. Id love to see this on a sequence of frames.
via reddit
Update : here is Dr Ariel Shamir’s homepage, with PDF and higher quality Quicktime.
Wow. That is stunning stuff. I've just been applying my brain to the problem of taking 4:3 material and making it into multiple-projector happiness. This type of tech could just do it all automatically! In what.. 5, 10 years time?
wow is right. wow. that's like nothing I've ever seen. I'm a graphic designer, and re-targeting is not only brilliant, but potentially extremely useful…if the next version of photoshop could do this, it would be great.
Well if Adobe doesnt adopt this technology they really blind they would be completely silly.
Yes, and we could apply this to television sets… adult content censorship 😛 If you dont want little Jimmy seeing the naughty bits, just have them erased on the fly.
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If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at <a> <a href="http://;www.thegedanken.com/retarget” target=”_blank”>;www.thegedanken.com/retarget
The program that you can download there (for Windows and Linux, and free) is already highly optimized concerning speed, and apart from enlarging or decreasing image size you can also use masks to protect or delete certain parts of your image.
Have fun,
Irmgard
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