{"id":12453,"date":"2007-08-19T23:43:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T23:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/08\/holy-crap-worthy-imaging-technology.html"},"modified":"2007-08-19T23:43:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T23:43:23","slug":"holy_crap_worthy_imaging_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/19\/holy_crap_worthy_imaging_technology\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Holy crap&quot;-worthy imaging technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8211;now <em>this<\/em> I haven&#8217;t seen before: Israeli brainiacs Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir have created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.idc.ac.il\/arik\/IMRet-All.mov\">pretty darn interesting video<\/a> that demonstrates their technique of &quot;Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing.&quot;&#160; When scaling an image horizontally or vertically (e.g. making a panorama narrower), the technology looks for paths of pixels that can be removed while causing the least visual disruption.&#160; Just as interesting, if not more so, I think, is the way the technology can add pixels when increasing image dimensions.&#160; Seriously, just check out the video; I think you&#8217;ll be blown away.&#160; (More info is in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.idc.ac.il\/arik\/imret.pdf\">20MB PDF<\/a>, in which they cite work by Adobe&#8217;s Aseem Agarwala&#8211;the creator of Photoshop CS3&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/12\/props_for_autoa.html\">Auto-Blend Layer<\/a> code.) [Via Geoff Stearns]  <\/p>\n<p>I hope to share more good stuff from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/\">SIGGRAPH<\/a> soon.&#160; While I was being stuffed with ham sandwiches by kindly Irish folks, a number of Adobe engineers were speaking at &amp; exploring the show.&#160; Todor Georgiev, one of the key minds behind the Healing Brush, has been busily gluing together his own cutting edge optical systems.&#160; More on that soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8211;now this I haven&#8217;t seen before: Israeli brainiacs Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir have created a pretty darn interesting video that demonstrates their technique of &quot;Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing.&quot;&#160; When scaling an image horizontally or vertically (e.g. making a panorama narrower), the technology looks for paths of pixels that can be removed while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}