"Content-Aware" Smart Image Resizing Algo

Posted by Alex in Video Clips on August 20, 2007 at 8:15 pm


Everyone who has ever worked with digital images know that you resize an image either by cropping it (and potentially lose important parts of the image) or shrinking it (and lose size or contend with a distorted image).

Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Herzliya, Israel, shows us another way: content-aware "smart" image sizing, where you can have your "image cake" and eat it too (you’ll see what I mean):

Retargeting is a new technology focused on solving problems with changing sizesof digital photography, while traditional crops often fails to include all elements and resize may make the image too small to distinguish, retargeting, using an algorithm, recognizes what’s relevant to the image, and column by column of pixels are removed.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Dr. Shamir’s website – Thanks therror!


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11 comments to ""Content-Aware" Smart Image Resizing Algo"

  1. Akiro
    August 20th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    As a webdesigner and self-taught graphic artist, I have to say that is outstanding and pretty darn amazing! Hopefully an open-sourced or adobe plug/patch will be released for photoshop!

  2. Tinderbox
    August 20th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    That's pretty crazy. I wonder if it requires a new format or if it can be adapted to existing Web formats such as PNG.

  3. flatluigi
    August 20th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    I really like that, especially the 'erasing.'

  4. Tom
    August 21st, 2007 at 10:21 am

    WANT!

  5. Some crazy dork
    August 21st, 2007 at 11:01 am

    Super WANT!

  6. Solo
    August 21st, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    It looks amazing from the demo. My concern is that it demands that the algorithm _knows_ what are the important features of a picture.

    I'm eager to try this on one of my random picture and see how it performs.

  7. Greg Swaney
    August 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 pm

    Amazing!

  8. D. Mulder
    August 31st, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    http://swieskowski.net/carve/ A "demo" of this technology based on this paper made by the author of this technology http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/imret.pdf

  9. Irmgard
    September 19th, 2007 at 5:20 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

  10. Will
    September 29th, 2007 at 12:25 am

    Check out rsizr.com for a free Flash-based implementation of seam carving that lets you resize your own 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

  11. Fili An
    May 26th, 2009 at 6:16 am

    Brilliant. This should be a standard feature.


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