Category: Siggraph07

  • rsizr….web2.0 for Content-Aware Image Resizing

    So here it is, the web2.0 app you’ve all been waiting for. We’d covered Content-Aware Image Resizing before in two of our articles here and here. Now it looks like there is rsizr is actually the working 2.0 app that can do this type of Seam Carving. Try it out…..it’s magic.

  • Image Slicing LIVE…..

    Hot on the heels of our coverage of Image Slicing and Stretching paper titled Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir), here is a fully working prototype of the shrinking part of the paper by Patrick Swieskowski. So how long do you think it will take for Adobe to snag these…

  • Image Slicing and Stretching….

    Found this while having a beer in Stuttgart, Germany. Video of the excellent paper presented by Shai Avidan from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) and Ariel Shamirfrom The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)/Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). From their excellent Paper titled Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing: Seam carving is a method for content-aware resizing that…

  • Siggraph07: San Diego Zoo

    Yeah these were shot during the last day of my Siggraph 2007 trip to San Diego. If you like the zoo, you’ll love the one in San Diego. If you don’t, go and visit anyway, you might change your mind. From Wikipedia entry: The world-famous San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California is…

  • Siggraph07: Exploring San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter

    Here is another batch of pictures from my recent trip to San Diego. These were shot during an afternoon walking down 5th and back up 4th Ave. If you get a chance you should definitely hang out here, specially at night. Lots of Art Deco architecture, good food and lots of drinks. And before you…