Archive for August 22nd, 2007:
Back from the UK
Posting has been a bit sparse lately as I’ve been seriously busy with work. I also just returned from a trip to the UK for work.
It was the first time I’d ever been to the UK, or even Europe for that matter. It was a short visit unfortunately and I can’t wait to get back and explore some more.
I loved London - the busyness, the people, the architecture - all good stuff. I was only in London for an evening, but got to see some of the more touristy things like Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Parliament and Big Ben, which was all cool.
Can’t wait to get back.
Seam carving for content aware image resizing
Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan have come up with a method for “retargeting” photos. An algorithm is used to detect horizontal and vertical seams of pixels with the least gradient magnitude. This path of pixels can then be removed from the photo, shrinking it in size, but preserving the rest of the photo. To increase the size of the photo, pixels are added along the determined seam.
You can view a higher resolution movie at Ariel Shamir web site. There is also a pdf available, however server speeds prevented me from actually downloading it.