Archive for August, 2007

Non-uniform content-aware image resizing

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Ever wanted to resize or crop a photo without losing essential details or having weird artifacts due to a changed aspect-ratio? Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg

I can imagine lots of applications for this, both good (remove your ex from that awesome group shot from a few years back) and evil (alter photographic evidence being presented at a trial). I guess an interesting but probably much harder next step would be to use similar algorithms to transform a video stream.

Friday catblogging

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Doing what they do best, here are our cats Leo and Grace being lazy.

lazycats.jpg