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    Comment #45190644

    Very cool stuff!

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    Show HN: Real time visual saliency detection

    I've just made public a library to perform real time visual saliency detection on videos (but static images are also supported). This started a couple months ago when, while workin…

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    Comment #44253258

    Two things: 1. I like the natural feel it gives to images. 2. Easy to control. As much as it's super easy to cook up a matrix based error diffusion dither (like Floyd), there are a…

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    Comment #44253225

    GIF rendering is a big use case. pngquant was a big comparison subject during development (it's a brilliant piece of work, and a mature tool that does a few things more than just q…

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    Comment #44239831

    Yeah, good point. I'll definitely add an image showing the saliency map tradeoff. Regarding full examples, because some other projects seem to have cherry picked cases where they p…

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    Comment #44239100

    Something that caught my eye is that it seemed to be a kind of "controlled" K-Means. One problem with K-means is that it's too sensitive to the initial state. You can run it multip…

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    Comment #44238647

    Gamma aware operations happen in the C code. The python code you're referencing is just changing the scale of color intensities. What you shouldn't do is liberally add up sRGB colo…

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    Comment #44236445

    Will take a look, thanks for sharing! This does not implement Wu v2 but a different method he published a year later though.

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    Show HN: High End Color Quantizer

    This is a personal project I've been working on for a long time now. I stumbled upon the color quantization problem while doing something related for work. I then found an interest…