If you thought yesterday's post was cool, try it yourself at Seam Carving Demo. Patrick Swieskowski has developed an online demo of seam carving based on Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir's work.
Today, a co-worker sent me a link to a great new technology. For years, graphic editors have been cropping, resizing and editing photos to make them fit the size and shape that's needed for publication. This is often a tedious process even for experienced editors. Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir have developed a tool for automatically resizing images using seam carving, while maintaining important features and/or elimating undesired areas. A paper (20 Mb) on this technology is available and video of their tool in use can be found on YouTube. I can't wait until this is publicly available through photo editing software and browsers.
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