Content-Aware Image Resizing 174
An anonymous reader writes "At the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego, two Israeli professors, Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir, have demonstrated a new method to shrink images. The method is called 'Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing' (PDF paper here) and it figures out which parts of an image are less significant. This makes it possible to change the aspect ratio of an image without making the content look skewed or stretched out. There is a video demonstration up on YouTube."
Practical uses (Score:2, Funny)
The Commissar Vanishes (Score:1, Funny)
http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanis
I don't mean to instigate a knee-jerk, authoritarian censorship discussion. I think it's obvious that this technique is just plain cool and has great potential for beneficial use, even if it might be used for ill. That's just an intersting historical example that it might have made easier in execution (har-har; gallows humor and pun 2-for-1!).
Whao (Score:5, Funny)
I can see the spam now (Score:3, Funny)
Re:nice! (Score:5, Funny)
Better never get a partner then at all if you are going to hate the person once it doesn't work longer.
But then I'm a regular slashdot visitor and don't have any exs so what do I know.
Does Anyone Find It Ironic (Score:5, Funny)
Let us be wholly thankful... (Score:1, Funny)
Those performing the evaluation of the test results before the final version were forced to be institutionalized.
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank those brave soldiers for their unblinking fortitude in this ultimate self-sacrifice. It's times like this when I become truly aware of my own gaping inadequacies, and feel the deep, deep obligation to rectify my own short comings.
Re:Let us be wholly thankful... (Score:4, Funny)
hehe... gaping... deep deep... rectum... i mean rectify... hehe
i need to get some sleep
I know this isn't adding much to the discussion... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great (Score:3, Funny)
Re:some code (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great - We can do this, but should we? (Score:3, Funny)