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Image content-aware resizing

I just came across this video demonstration of some clever image manipulation research presented at SIGGRAPH 2007 by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL).

The video shows off a method they call "Seam carving", enabling content-aware resizing that changes the size of an image according to its content. You've got to see it to believe it.

(Their original paper (PDF) provides loads more detail on the research)

Posted: Aug 22 2007, 10:35 PM by alexbarnett | with 1 comment(s)

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Matt Katz said:

At one point in the video, the narrator says "We define and <i>importance</i> or energy function."

And it's true - they remove the pixels with the least amount of importance to the picture.  Fascinating that they can do this with such a simple algorithm.

# August 27, 2007 6:29 AM