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Started by dponce80 · 10 months ago

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  • Seems like a faster photoshop.

    However, I don't like the retargeting, it seems to mess up the picture.
  • OMG I want this in the GIMP right freaking now.

    That is cool shit right there!
  • 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.
  • Doesn't microsoft have something like this already?
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Very impressive demo.
  • Macs can probably do it better
  • ^^^ Mac idiot. This is image processing not drawing flowers!
  • 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.
  • Programming IS an exciting and fun career. Where've YOU been?
  • 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.
  • Aaah this has totally turned my image world upside down. Pure genius.
  • ˙ooʇ uʍop ǝpısdn plɹoʍ ʎɯ pǝuɹnʇ ʎllɐʇoʇ ʇı
  • All i can say is...
    That is Fantastic.
  • Stunning looking, it would be good if there was some full size pictures to show off though
  • Such information could be contained in the image data for on-the-fly transformations.
  • amazing!
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • WoW
    That list bit where you erase the guy / girl are pretty amazing!
  • Erased...from existence!
  • Extraordinary
  • I have only one word to say about this...

    That was awesome, awesome to the max!
  • "Penis enlargement" on the fly ^^
  • 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 !
  • Great stuff. But you don't mean "content aware", you mean "image feature aware".
  • WHERE THE H*LL IS THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON????
  • 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
  • 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
  • Look for the useful submenu item called "Divorce."
  • 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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