Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Seam Carving, Magically Intelligent Image Resizing
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "SOFTWARE" @ 07:00 AM
"The first time we saw seam carving in action, we thought it was an optical illusion. It isn’t. For those of you who saw the demonstration video and academic paper (see links below) a month back, you know why we were so amazed. Alas, it was but a proof of concept at the time. But now you can finally use seam carving on your own images! First, a quick summary of the technique: Typically, when you resize a photo, you just make everything in it smaller. Simple, right? Well seam carving is like a smarter version of resizing. Your computer analyzes the photo and figures out what’s important and what isn’t, then it eliminates the less important areas first as you shrink the image."
In case you don't remember, there was that awesome content-aware image resizing app that we have posted on a few weeks ago. Well, it is research no longer, try the app out here. It's awesome!
In case you don't remember, there was that awesome content-aware image resizing app that we have posted on a few weeks ago. Well, it is research no longer, try the app out here. It's awesome!
