Amazing “content-aware” image resizing process
November 16, ‘07
Posted by JaeWow - imagine being able to resize an image, and the image "knows" what parts to reduce, what parts to keep, so that people don't look like bean strings, and cars don't look like pancakes. Watch the amazing video demo.
Developed by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan, this is by far the most intelligent image processing and sizing algorithm I’ve ever seen. The beautiful part of the process is that it has built-in algorithms that detect certain continuous shapes and areas and assigns value to each, breaking down the image into multiple facets and overlapping only those facets that are deemed not as important.
So, the only question left is, are you looking at this Adobe?
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