Update: see a third party online working demo here.
This image resizing and manipulation demonstration is sort of jaw dropping, particularly as the video goes on. The related paper, written by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan is available here.
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That’s really amazing. Can’t wait to get my hands on the application.
Wow, really neat! That’s what I call “thread less Stitching on the Fly”
Amazing!! I also want it on Photoshop! (or fireworks) :p
Interesting find! Mind you, as LCD / monitor screens get larger and larger, this function would become less needed in a web presence, in terms of confined screen size.
It makes checking the User Generated Content a hell of a job for editors…
the resizing and the ability to delete people towards the end is simply amazing.
It would be great to have this on HTML pages also. It is pretty easy to implement it. Are there existing implementations for this ?
Wow, this is great! This is gonna have a major impact in all arenas, from websites to game programming!
This is the kindda stuff you should put up on techcruch!
Please do keep us updated on this one.
Thats amazing.
Crazy stuff. ADBE will buy that I hope.
Yeah, I saw this before, but still amazing indeed!
I like to have my pictures untampered with. This way, you may never know if you’re looking at the original or a shrunk/expanded version of an image. If used carelessly, you might glance over an image and not see some essential detail because it’s been cut out.
Alright, this is very cool and I can see myself using it. But, I have to imagine Reuters will get a bit concerned once this is in the wild.
This is really amazing - almost as amazing as getting my hands on our first scanner (me and friends snuck into the school lab and played with it for 3 hours until getting caught by the guard), or seeing the first Photoshop demonstration.
Only question left is when! which version of PS?
Awesome!!!
what? photoshop? i want this in HTML.
-mp
thats pretty neat, you could use it as a compression I would think. I wander what its like for moving images. Take a movie down to its lowest size and then use this tech to shrink it. I love seeing what comes out of siggraph.
very interesting waaaaaaaouuuuuuu.
are you serious? professional photographers will cut your arms off if you do that to their images. solution in search of a problem.
Awesome! Nice job.
That whole person removal thing is awesome. It could be very useful for saving / rescuing vacation images after you have a nasty breakup.
Beautiful Hawaii beach saved…
…No good cheating ex gone.
Perfect picture!
aha, exactly Chris.
That’s awesome.
creative job.
Two entries from Israel in one day.
What a great idea! I wonder if the same ideas could be used for music in some way, too.
Fantastic find! If anybody ever tells you that innovation is dead, recall Drs. Shamir and Avidan’s paper. Who would have thought that there’s more left to do in regards to image scaling?! Kudos to you for finding it and kudos to the innovation!
This certainly does inspire other ideas. Imagine that when you resize a webiste, the vocabulary of the words automatically reduce also:
For example:
“Blogs with verbose and rambling content are likely to be less sticky than blogs that have a more a succinct and concise phraseology. ”
Might turn into:
“Blogs with verbose content are less sticky than blogs that have concise phraseology.”
The idea is to shrink the content without causing scrollbars to appear until it just can’t anymore. At that point, break out the scrollbars. This has got mobile devices written all over it!
–Ray Renteria
What exactly would you do with this in Photoshop? It seems obvious to me that this technique is intended for use in presentation of images, not editing or photo-correcting (cases in which working with the original image is crucial). Using this in HTML only makes sense if implemented (via a plug-in?) to adjust file (download) size when retargetting.
Btw, this was posted on dpreview last week.
This is pretty cool but realize that this will work only for certain types of pictures. For example, removing individual people (from the last part of the video) is easily doable only when the image is of a specific type. In all their examples, the key was to be able to find a path from left to right, or top to bottom, where the path did not intersect an edge/distinct feature.
So if you had a group photograph, where people were closer, and the background was a group of buildings, this would be much more difficult to accomplish…
Vijay,
Your observation is not entirely accurate. The algorithm finds the weakest path. Ultimately, it will intersect edges and distinct features. While the image is full size, there are many “quiet” paths that when removed don’t impact the interesting parts of the photograph. As the image becomes smaller there still exist weakest paths, obviously, but the image is likely more dense with interesting content and those paths are thus more likely to impact them.
Furthermore, as a photographer or image editor savvy in this algorithm, you can bias where those paths are. In your scenario with the buildings and people, you could designate which are the weakest and which are the strongest paths so the algorithm could truncate in the order you want.
–Ray Renteria
Vijay,
I’d say more. To shrink horizontally/vertically, you need a horizontal/vertical pattern with vertical/horizontal seams. In the absence of a pattern you are stuck. Or consider a circular pattern…
This is really cool. I would love to see this in Photoshop. It would be a great alternative to the rubber stamp tool.
When you think “Adobe Photoshop”, one of the best places to check for news is Product Manager John Nack’s blog (and on this one you might want to check out the comments):
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2.....orthy.html
jd/adobe
Wide-spread ’seamed’ photos will surely confuse the hell out of Microsoft PhotoSynth. LOL.
When you change the layout of a web page and the text wrap, you don’t lose the text. You don’t have every other word dropped. The analogy to word wrapping is poor, and the concept is, well, frankly, horrid. It’s a boy toy, not the tool of a serious craftsperson.
This is incredible. I would totally love this in Photoshop.
I’d pay for a photoshop upgrade if this was included!
at first i thought the paper was by aDi Shamir, not aRi Shamir, but i guess not.
the top ’serious’ video on youtube recently (ie not funny cats, etc.) that’s viral!
I guess I must be losing touch with the Web2.0 world.
I see absolutely no use of this at all…. including 80% of the stuff the rest of the Web2.0 world churns out.
Too bad we can’t see a higher resolution photo, I bet you can see seams and other parts left behind… Adobe will buy them out soon, hopefully and perfect it…
Someone needs to buy it and buy it fast. Who ever gets it will make a mint.
“Adobe will buy them out soon, hopefully and perfect it…”
yeppers
and I will definitely buy that application of wait for the version of CS that has it!
I practice the very expensive hobby of amateur photography, and I would never use this on any of my photos & I doubt any pros would. However, I would definitely use this in document applications such as word, pages, etc. I think this is incredible technology.
I’m disappointed to see real innovation featured on TechCrunch.
Please post news about a new social network or LOLcats or something.
This is really cool. I do a lot of model editing or enhancing. I love this. Makes my job a lot easier. I am sure with this innovation, someone will come up with image protection technique which will prevent tampering of images. Really..cool..Kudos for the professors.
All you *real* photogs with your “not with my photos” need to get a life. Jesus. I suppose you never load your photos in Photoshop either.
I can tell you that Shai Avidan, one of the co-developers of this technology, started work at Adobe last Monday. Beyond that, we’ll see what happens.
J.
Wow, very cool. I wouldn’t want it to be applied to every image on the web but I can easily see its applications.
That is such an amazing demo.
love++
You are a bit late, Michael: this was all over Digg and Reddit last week =).