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General => Akihabara => Topic started by: ebc on August 21, 2007, 02:23:00 PM

Title: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: ebc on August 21, 2007, 02:23:00 PM

Check this out http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mov  it's about 17mb

It's an image resizing tool which instead of compressing or stretching the pixels and then blending them. It looks through the image for it's energy patterns and then by using algorithms takes out sections of the image that aren't really needed but keeping the original size of the key objects.
While this sounds kind of impossible and you'd think it would give poor results it's infact the most impressive thing I've seen in ages.

Really worth a look  8)

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: ~Dan~ on August 21, 2007, 04:30:49 PM

Sounds interesting.  A pity it's downloading at 2k/sec.  XD

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: frblckstr1 on August 21, 2007, 04:33:21 PM

Just watched it (got a bit better download speed then  Dan :))

This sounds like a combination of fractal compression and some other technices used to 'stitch' picture together.

It does distort the end-result compare to the origional, but its not fully 'automatic' for example with the bears they edited the pups closer to the mother!

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: StreakInTheSky on August 21, 2007, 10:04:07 PM

woah, looks pretty damn cool, would make doing alot of things I'd like to do but too lazy to, easier

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: ~Dan~ on August 22, 2007, 02:14:17 AM

Impressive!  I just watched it now.  I'd forgotten all about it until I saw this thread again!

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: kukine on August 22, 2007, 03:51:28 AM

Is this tool available to download and use?
Downloading as I type this, ... 1 hr left, blah

EDIT: Just watched it, really amazing what they can do with images. And I guess this software wont be available anytime soon.

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: Asmodai on August 22, 2007, 04:13:03 PM

Pretty amazing. It's interesting how easily images can be distorted. Really can't trust pictures any more.

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: Masabi on September 13, 2007, 02:51:18 AM

for those of us who dont want to download there's a YT streaming here:
http://www.seamcarving.com/

download a prototype:
http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget/

google is my friend ^_^

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: kwanleekwan on September 13, 2007, 04:04:15 PM

That's a cool tool

Title: Re: Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!
Post by: Dronak on October 03, 2007, 10:50:52 PM

I recently heard about this liquid rescaler when a plugin for The GIMP came out.  You can get the plugin at http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ if you're interested.  It looks interesting, but I had trouble getting it to do what I wanted.  Of course, I'm not big on image editing, so that may have had something to do with it.