Recently the “seam carving” technology to size images in a content aware way to preserve the original intention of the photo has been really taking off. In fact, Joa Ebert and Mario Klingemann, two flash geniuses have created and optimized [2] an AS3 algorithm for seam carving based on the paper about this new technology that was highlighted at 2007 SIGGRAPH.
View the original first flash implementation of this at swieskowski
View the source of the initial Joe Ebert AS3 Content Aware implementation
View the demo of the initial Joe Ebert AS3 Content Aware implementation
View the optimized source by Mario Klingemann
View the demo of the optimized source by Mario Klingemann
View the paper by Dr Ariel Shamir and Dr Shai Avidan
View zero point nine’s quick and visual implementation (smaller images but fast)
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September 6, 2007 at 3:11 pm
How about this as a plugin in Photoshop? We’ve done that for you. 🙂
http://picutel.com/
Release notes and all the details at:
http://blog.picutel.com/2007/09/06/advanced-photo-resizing-in-adobe-photoshop/
September 14, 2007 at 4:14 am
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September 19, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Hi,
If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget
The program that you can download there (for Windows and Linux, and free) is already highly optimized concerning speed, and apart from enlarging or decreasing image size you can also use masks to protect or delete certain parts of your image.
Have fun,
Irmgard
September 21, 2007 at 9:59 am
There is also a gimp plug-in which is pretty good. I’ve done some tests with it and posted on my blog. Pretty cool.
September 22, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Nice one Hermano, thanks for the heads up looks pretty sweet.
September 28, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Check out rsizr.com for a Flash-based implementation of seam carving that lets you resize images, both in height and width simultaneously, in real time. (You can rescale and crop images too!)
http://rsizr.com/about/gallery/ for example images
October 1, 2007 at 8:54 am
The download object override the image clipping very annoying .
March 7, 2008 at 11:18 am
I browsed through the site http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget but couldn’t get the downloadable version of the sofware.could anyone please help!!
June 1, 2008 at 3:27 am
Thats strange, when I try to resize a girl using your algo, only boobs appear! That means all information of the image is contented on it????
(It was a french joke ;-)) Great job!