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  Alex

  1 year ago

  Seems like a faster photoshop.
  
  However, I don't like the retargeting, it seems to mess up the picture.
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  adamshegrud

  1 year ago

  OMG I want this in the GIMP right freaking now.
  
  That is cool shit right there!
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  Aakash

  1 year ago

  Is this something that I need to download, or purchase... or is it something that we just use on the web? It would be neat to have image and video manipulation programs that were easy and quick to use. Thanks for the info about this.
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  John Summers

  1 year ago

  Doesn't microsoft have something like this already?
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  Duke

  1 year ago

  I wonder how expensive this algorithm is. Seems like it's going to take quite a lot of processing power, what with averaging gradient density & calculating a gradient path. That would put it out of range of, say, an iPhone dynamically retargeting an image to its preferred size. (Until processors are crazy fast anyway.)
  
  But this technique is a shoe-in for image editing (photoshop / gimp / etc).
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  Andrew Pollack

  1 year ago

  That is completely sick. In a good way. This is amazing by itself, but combined with face recognition which could then be weighted with some kind of bicubic resizing you have what looks like it will be the "standard practice" within a few years.
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  Nicolas

  1 year ago

  Very impressive it would be a very powerful After Effects tool. I'd really like to use this application it would make things like rotoscoping easier and in some cases unnecessary.
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  Jon Hess

  1 year ago

  Very impressive demo.
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  Gee

  1 year ago

  Macs can probably do it better
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  Joe Mart

  1 year ago

  ^^^ Mac idiot. This is image processing not drawing flowers!
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  James Justin Harrell

  1 year ago

  Oh man, that is crazy! I'm amazed that it can so effectively produce such realistic images when altering them so drastically. This makes programming seem like an exciting and fun career.
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  tim

  1 year ago

  Programming IS an exciting and fun career. Where've YOU been?
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  12_Centuries

  1 year ago

  This was incredible. And I don't think it would necessarily take a lot of processing power. Didn't he mention an indexing of paths? Such information could be contained in the image data for on-the-fly transformations. Sure, the file size increases, but bandwidth is no longer as bad of a bottleneck as it once was.
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  Anthony Milner

  1 year ago

  Aaah this has totally turned my image world upside down. Pure genius.
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  Flipped Out.

  1 year ago

  ˙ooʇ uʍop ǝpısdn plɹoʍ ʎɯ pǝuɹnʇ ʎllɐʇoʇ ʇı
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  Martin

  1 year ago

  All i can say is...
  That is Fantastic.
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  B

  1 year ago

  Stunning looking, it would be good if there was some full size pictures to show off though
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  myspace animations

  1 year ago

  Such information could be contained in the image data for on-the-fly transformations.
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  anon

  1 year ago

  amazing!
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  king

  1 year ago

  The calculated paths and such could be contained in the image data, but another possibility would be storing it in a metadata file separate from the original. Compatible browsers could then selectively request the data. If this becomes popular, I can envisage a "package" image format, similar to the .app format on macs, containing the image and metadata, of which part or whole can be transmitted to the remote browser depending on the browser request.
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  Anonymous

  1 year ago

  It makes things look weird. Like the example with the mom and kid. They're proportioned oddly after the process. I guess I'm just old-fashioned.
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  Ash Haque

  1 year ago

  WoW
  That list bit where you erase the guy / girl are pretty amazing!
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  Anonymous

  1 year ago

  Erased...from existence!
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  julio gaye

  1 year ago

  Extraordinary
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  Bunggo

  1 year ago

  I have only one word to say about this...
  
  That was awesome, awesome to the max!
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  Sasper

  1 year ago

  "Penis enlargement" on the fly ^^
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  D

  1 year ago

  thats more than one word?
  
  Cool as hell though, all the time I have criticized movies where secret government agencies paint people out of security images with a single click, and this can do it dynamically. Amazing how simple the principle is, it does seem strange its not been done before. And yes software is a cool career !
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  Jon Krueger

  1 year ago

  Great stuff. But you don't mean "content aware", you mean "image feature aware".
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  SID

  1 year ago

  WHERE THE H*LL IS THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON????
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  mercedes parts

  1 year ago

  Cool as hell though, all the time I have criticized movies where secret government agencies paint people out of security images with a single click
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  Irmgard

  1 year ago

  Hi,
  If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at http://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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  DropTheBitchAndMakeTheSwitch

  1 year ago

  Look for the useful submenu item called "Divorce."
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  Nestor

  1 year ago

  Remarkable stuff, I can't believe it's so effective. Can't wait for these kinds of filters to become standard in photo apps
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