Suhit Gupta
08-30-2007, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.ohgizmo.com/?s=content+aware+image+resizing' target='_blank'>http://www.ohgizmo.com/?s=content+aware+image+resizing</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Like it or not, most of the time when you take a picture, a significant portion of the image is (for lack of a better word) useless. Or rather, there are lots of areas of the image that aren’t conveying any important information. Obviously this excludes you artsy-picture types, but if you’re just trying to show and/or explain something (which most of the images on the Internet, excluding porn, are probably trying to do) wouldn’t it be useful if you could make images smaller by selectively removing the least important pixels? Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Israel has developed some software to automatically do just that, in realtime no less. Watch and be amazed:"</i><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qadw0BRKeMk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="330"></embed><br /><br />I ended that video thinking, 'boy, I wish I could have seen more examples'. That is excellent work by these researchers and I can't wait for this to be out in production.