Monday, November 5, 2007

Enhancing footage with photos & more.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pro/papers/videoEnhancement/videoEnhancement.htm

These guys are unbelievable! I really can't wait to see this technology mature and become standard tools for compositors. I wonder if in the near future it will be standard to move the camera around for a while bit before shooting to get footage for scene geometry reconstruction.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Content aware image resizing technique.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082201seamcarvingimageresizing.asp

Totally cool method of resizing images. The computer looks for columns (or more accurately vertical/horizontal paths) of least significance and removes/scales those pixels instead of simply removing/scaling uniformly across the entire image. Very cool results. I wouldn't be surprised to see this being included in future web browsers to allow "intelligent" image resizing for web pages.

Absolutely brilliant!