Image retargeting

Robert Clark submitted this story:

One of the researchers behind this technique is Shai Avidan ( http://www.merl.com/people/avidan/ ) formerly of MERL, has been hired by Adobe, so it is likely that Photoshop and possibly Flash and AIR will be taking advantage of this and other forward looking techniques in the near future.,

When I checked out the video, I was simply amazed at what it did. It edits the image in real time finding the least cost paths through the image and removing them. Effectively taking out ‘unneeded’ or ‘extra’ image data. Watch the video and be amazed:

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