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Content-Aware Image Resizing

Posted by kdawson on from the got-a-nice-gui-too dept.

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."

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  1. Re:The paper via ACM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you've got it except for a small detail in the "Remove objects", which the narrator alludes to around timestamp 4:01 of the video. You might want to add:

    Step 6: Extend image to match original size using the previous extend image algorithm

    (Of course, I leave the obligatory Profit step as an exercise for the reader).