Comments on: The Future of Imagery? Content Aware Image Resizing http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Will http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-401186 Will Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:02:10 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-401186 Check out rsizr.com for a 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 Check out rsizr.com for a 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

]]> By: AlexW http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-388212 AlexW Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:58:36 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-388212 <blockquote>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</blockquote> Wow, that is impressive, Irmgard! I've seen a few implementations since this first appeared, but that's easily the best so far. Great work.

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

Wow, that is impressive, Irmgard!

I’ve seen a few implementations since this first appeared, but that’s easily the best so far. Great work.

]]> By: Irmgard http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-387892 Irmgard Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:51:02 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-387892 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 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

]]> By: RC http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-386590 RC Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:33:40 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-386590 It would be great to put images into portable devices that scale so we can see the whole picture in context, eliminating the need for scrolling. Great tool! It would be great to put images into portable devices that scale so we can see the whole picture in context, eliminating the need for scrolling.
Great tool!

]]> By: Serge http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-377192 Serge Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:03:39 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-377192 I have created the experimental realization of "seam carving" method, you may download it here: http://www.intuimage.com I have created the experimental realization of “seam carving” method, you may download it here: http://www.intuimage.com

]]> By: Frank Quist http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-376289 Frank Quist Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:19:52 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-376289 <em>Of course, when any human editor crops a photo, he or she is making an editorial change to content of the image — leaving some bits in, cropping others out — and we all accept that as part of the process of journalism.</em> This is a different kind of editorial decision, though. Yes, bits are left out, but none of the bits that are left in are actually <em>manipulated</em>. While the viewer can be fooled by leaving out important bits, every bit that is left in can be trusted. Unlike others, this trend gave me little excitement. It just seems an odd, quirky technique that would be useful in only things like logos, ads, copywriting, etc (basically anything non-photo where no photo imagery is manipulated). When applied to photos (where most of the wow factor probably comes from) it just leaves me with the sour taste in my mouth that we will have even less trust in what we see (the threat here not coming from the technique per sé but in the amount of people that seem to find it nonobjectionable, unlike other manipulation techniques). Should be a niche technique useful in copywriting companies, but make it stay outside of journalism, please. Of course, when any human editor crops a photo, he or she is making an editorial change to content of the image — leaving some bits in, cropping others out — and we all accept that as part of the process of journalism.
This is a different kind of editorial decision, though. Yes, bits are left out, but none of the bits that are left in are actually manipulated. While the viewer can be fooled by leaving out important bits, every bit that is left in can be trusted. Unlike others, this trend gave me little excitement. It just seems an odd, quirky technique that would be useful in only things like logos, ads, copywriting, etc (basically anything non-photo where no photo imagery is manipulated). When applied to photos (where most of the wow factor probably comes from) it just leaves me with the sour taste in my mouth that we will have even less trust in what we see (the threat here not coming from the technique per sé but in the amount of people that seem to find it nonobjectionable, unlike other manipulation techniques).

Should be a niche technique useful in copywriting companies, but make it stay outside of journalism, please.

]]> By: AlexW http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-358404 AlexW Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:44:30 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-358404 <blockquote>hmm, this is going to bring in a whole new age of forged images… like in the surfer bit… want to get the ex girlf out of old pictures? no problem… :p</blockquote> I guess we've had control of the content of our own images for a long time. To some extent, this takes away some of that control and gives it to individual browsers. <blockquote>But how does this fit in with copyright laws? I would think if, for example, you are resizing in this way, things would no longer take on their original shape. Also, if you are cropping people out of photos, that is removing the art behind a photographer’s photo. Is this even legal?</blockquote> Great question. This is cutting-edge image technology right now, so there's little likelihood the law will even recognise it's an issue in the next five years. I think if I was Reuters Images, licencing news images to other news sources, I'd want some kind of tagging in my images that told browsers 'No CAIR resizing'.

hmm, this is going to bring in a whole new age of forged images… like in the surfer bit… want to get the ex girlf out of old pictures? no problem… :p

I guess we’ve had control of the content of our own images for a long time. To some extent, this takes away some of that control and gives it to individual browsers.

But how does this fit in with copyright laws? I would think if, for example, you are resizing in this way, things would no longer take on their original shape. Also, if you are cropping people out of photos, that is removing the art behind a photographer’s photo. Is this even legal?

Great question. This is cutting-edge image technology right now, so there’s little likelihood the law will even recognise it’s an issue in the next five years. I think if I was Reuters Images, licencing news images to other news sources, I’d want some kind of tagging in my images that told browsers ‘No CAIR resizing’.

]]> By: MikesBarto2002 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-358082 MikesBarto2002 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:39:04 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-358082 But how does this fit in with copyright laws? I would think if, for example, you are resizing in this way, things would no longer take on their original shape. Also, if you are cropping people out of photos, that is removing the art behind a photographer's photo. Is this even legal? But how does this fit in with copyright laws? I would think if, for example, you are resizing in this way, things would no longer take on their original shape. Also, if you are cropping people out of photos, that is removing the art behind a photographer’s photo. Is this even legal?

]]> By: ScottX http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-357581 ScottX Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:38:25 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-357581 wow. i mean WOW. hmm, this is going to bring in a whole new age of forged images... like in the surfer bit... want to get the ex girlf out of old pictures? no problem... :p wow. i mean WOW.

hmm, this is going to bring in a whole new age of forged images… like in the surfer bit… want to get the ex girlf out of old pictures? no problem… :p

]]> By: AlexW http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-356986 AlexW Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:06:02 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-future-of-imagery-content-aware-image-resizing/#comment-356986 Looks like <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/08/imaging_heavy_h.html" rel="nofollow">Shai Avidan has been snapped up by Adobe.</a> It would be interesting to know exactly what they want him to work on. I guess '<em>if an image resizes in the forest, but nobody sees it, did it really resize?</em>' -- or in plainer language, if a user can only see an image resize inside Photoshop, how valuable is the concept? Will we see Adobe will be venturing into the browser plugin market? Looks like Shai Avidan has been snapped up by Adobe. It would be interesting to know exactly what they want him to work on.

I guess ‘if an image resizes in the forest, but nobody sees it, did it really resize?‘ — or in plainer language, if a user can only see an image resize inside Photoshop, how valuable is the concept?

Will we see Adobe will be venturing into the browser plugin market?

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