Aug 22 2007

Impressive Siggraph talk – Seam Carving for Content Aware Image Resizing

by vade

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.

cropping, graphics, object-removal, resizing, seam-carving, siggraph,

http://www.jaymis.com Jaymis

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?
Brooks Courtright

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.
http://www.vjshow.net Jay

Well if Adobe doesnt adopt this technology they really blind they would be completely silly.
Dave Dri

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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http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget/ Irmgard

If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at <a&gt <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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