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  • Alex · 2 years ago
    Seems like a faster photoshop.

    However, I don't like the retargeting, it seems to mess up the picture.
  • adamshegrud · 2 years ago
    OMG I want this in the GIMP right freaking now.

    That is cool shit right there!
  • Aakash · 2 years 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.
  • John Summers · 2 years ago
    Doesn't microsoft have something like this already?
  • Duke · 2 years 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).
  • Andrew Pollack · 2 years 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.
  • Nicolas · 2 years 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.
  • Jon Hess · 2 years ago
    Very impressive demo.
  • Gee · 2 years ago
    Macs can probably do it better
  • Joe Mart · 2 years ago
    ^^^ Mac idiot. This is image processing not drawing flowers!
  • James Justin Harrell · 2 years 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.
  • tim · 2 years ago
    Programming IS an exciting and fun career. Where've YOU been?
  • 12_Centuries · 2 years 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.
  • Anthony Milner · 2 years ago
    Aaah this has totally turned my image world upside down. Pure genius.
  • Flipped Out. · 2 years ago
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  • Martin · 2 years ago
    All i can say is...
    That is Fantastic.
  • B · 2 years ago
    Stunning looking, it would be good if there was some full size pictures to show off though
  • myspace animations · 2 years ago
    Such information could be contained in the image data for on-the-fly transformations.
  • anon · 2 years ago
    amazing!
  • king · 2 years 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.
  • Anonymous · 2 years 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.
  • Ash Haque · 2 years ago
    WoW
    That list bit where you erase the guy / girl are pretty amazing!
  • Anonymous · 2 years ago
    Erased...from existence!
  • julio gaye · 2 years ago
    Extraordinary
  • Bunggo · 2 years ago
    I have only one word to say about this...

    That was awesome, awesome to the max!
  • Sasper · 2 years ago
    "Penis enlargement" on the fly ^^
  • D · 2 years 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 !
  • Jon Krueger · 2 years ago
    Great stuff. But you don't mean "content aware", you mean "image feature aware".
  • SID · 2 years ago
    WHERE THE H*LL IS THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON????
  • mercedes parts · 2 years 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
  • Irmgard · 2 years 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
  • DropTheBitchAndMakeTheSwitch · 2 years ago
    Look for the useful submenu item called "Divorce."
  • 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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