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- Renton, on 10/10/2007, -10/+67Videos belong in the video section. Oh wait, it's first on the top ten in the video section http://www.digg.com/videos/educational/Advanced_Photo_Resizing_Vid
- davidcg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+44I'm trying to think of something to write in this comment box about this technology, but basicly it comes down to me being somewhat speechless. The reason why, is because in my mind, this is one of the coolest technologies for images or just general art ive ever seen. This is something we definitely need, or at least I need haha. The reason why I'm so blown away, isn't because I think this is the most awesome or advanced piece of software i have seen, it's because of it's intelligent automation and how usefull it will be in the industry or just for folks like me. I mean compare it to ANY photoshop plugin and filter, they are all usefull tools, but none of them are smart like this one. This practically does all the work for you. Nice!
- DrShotgun, on 10/10/2007, -2/+42I just made a romance explosion.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26the video section isn't for articles that just happen to have an accompanying video. if it were just a video, then it might belong in the video section, but this article is fine where it is.
- sleze, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20This approach is SO simple, yet SO elegant. Just...wow. I'm gonna go set my thesis on fire now.
- letdowntourist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17my first real photoshop project was to scan a picture book and take out the gap in the middle and it took hours. may no one ever have to do that again.
- merreborn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Honestly, it probably belongs to both. Which would be possible if digg used some form of tagging instead of categories.
- UtahApocalyse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13That is way badass, hopefully it will be fully functional sometime soon and incorporated in some photo software.
- HeyArnold, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17Dude, stop complaining about where this is on Digg, and look at the damned video!!!
This guy's freaking brilliant. - neszis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10That is mindblowing. That's a new paradigm in image manipulation. When do I get this.
- real, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9very cool stuff not perfect but a very cool concept. When they get that working on stills, they need to get it on sequences, that would be awesome.
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/
Just note that his site is being Slashdotted/Dugg/Redditted/Zerg Rushed/Whatever the hell you want to call it these days. The least one of these metablogs could have done was to cache the damned PDF describing the algorithm. - Frost9999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Watch the video - the answer to your question is a resounding yes.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Wow, this is actually really amazing. It's difficult to grasp the concept from the description without seeing it for yourself.
- CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8This is guaranteed to become one of the most sought after tools for media censorship. You can clearly see there are only 3 candidates on this stage.
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Can it remove my ex out of my pictures? Those are some least important pixels I'd like to selectively remove.
- Kazanoe, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9So this is how they erase history in Russia.
- gmprunner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6This is extremely cool, particularly in the way that it can not only take away strips of pixels from an image but add them as well to make the image bigger.
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6They're convolution kernel operations, which can be done in faster-than-real-time on modern hardware. The only thing that's stored in memory are indexes of pixels to remove/add. This algorithm was specifically designed to allow for real-time image resizing so it could be used in devices like web browsers to scale content.
- sgr215, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Imagine if this could be totally automated and implemented in the next generation of HDTV's. Watching 4x3 content in full screen mode would no longer involve making everyone fat.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Im thoroughly impressed
- mxpx720, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7oh wow
- HUKI365, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Unfortunately this is EXACTLY what will happen to the pictures section. People will submit videos to the regular part of Digg to get more views. People won't bury it because essentially they are interested, but don't want to waste their time looking through other videos or pictures.
- PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"How to replace your video card"
"Blu-ray and HD-DVD video head to head"
Erm... Your point? - zephc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Hmm an easier way to shop and crop your images. No more pesky artifacts like "Mission Accomplished" banners, etc.
- lobasuu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Hours?!
- nairanvac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4There's a reply to button for a reason.
- lethalmonk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Would be interesting to see this applied to 4:3 footage to convert it 16:9, or any other aspect ratio for that matter. Although the algorithm would need to mature somewhat and take into account previous frame(s), otherwise some interesting morphs would probably occur.
- kalisphoenix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They only cut out the "useless" parts, not the "unused" parts.
- iakupo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Plus some people may not regularly check the video section and consequently miss out on cool stuff like this
- rompom7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I don't like the video section.. To much mediocre stuff makes it there.. I don't want to see family guy clips all the time.
I prefer the videos that make it to the news page, because I don't visit the videos page often.. And the ones that do make the news front page are usually interesting.
Luckily, digg understand this and a feature in the coming months will allow 'all' to be shown.. Which is exactly what I need to break up the same boring vids that have been going around since moses. - Konstantino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Now all we need is a Photoshop plug-in and we're good to go.
- MattCruikshank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm curious if could be extended to video. You know, they find uninteresting planes rather than uninteresting lines...
- andruzzo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yes..it's great...but images with lots of details and images with faces: this algorithm screws up. Saw it first hand at SIGGRAPH where it was demo-ed.
- kestrel9, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5So I stand 10 feet away from a famous celebrity and delete all the space between me and the celebrity. Yes, me and Beyonce are great friends. See this picture. I could also do the same thing with a tiger.
- iigloo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Maybe you can workout?
- RichStradler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Mindblowing, but where's all the typical comments labelling this genius as a zionist and claims of what has Israel done for the rest of the world? I'm just saying...
- kenvsryu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5My penis was retargeted, I swear.
- iigloo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Way to take something really popular from reddit and post it here one day later.
Who really cares? People thought it to be interesting and dugg it. - Sabakunoneji, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This must be how ABC cut Kucinich out of that picture...
- kaffein, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3http://www.digg.com/videos_educational/Advanced_Photo_Resizing_Vid
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3 This is very clever, probably good for mobile devices. For the web I would prefer it not be used and instead just regular resizing while keeping the aspect will prevail.
How will you ever know for sure what you are looking at? What if you are trying to judge distances? - soil, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3This is cool, but weird too. Anyone know the laws regarding photos as admissible evidence in court now in the days of photoshopping etc.?
/oops. Sosueme Adobe. - rrunboy12, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4i usually don't make comments to digg articles...but that is the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time
- exodar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have mixed feelings about this. From a technical perspective it's one of the most amazing ideas I have ever seen in regards to image manipulation and the impacts on the web are very apparent. However, part of me just can't help but feel that modifying images automatically like this can lead to a complete misrepresentation of the photographers intentions. I do like the idea that the author of the image has a way to mark parts of the image to ensure they are preserved or denote parts that can be shrunk or eliminated. Maybe it's like any other paradigm shift...just takes a while to get used to.
- rockrapdude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So here it is. The pdf http://rapidshare.com/files/50759437/imret.exe.html
- evereddie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3THIS IS MAJOR! Maybe if finally applied we won't have to look at out of aspect ratio photos on web pages that are done by amateurs. I am so tired of fat or skinny heads.
Hope it is coming for videos too, like the lousy videos on the CNN site. They stretch videos to look wide screen when they are not. Who do they think they are fooling! - rb89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Whoa.
- cbartlett, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is amazing technology, but scary, too.
Anything that makes it easier for people to distort reality makes us all have to question what we see. - majinosity, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2wow. this is by far, the best image software demo i have ever seen... INVEST IN THESE GUYS!
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