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Re: Content-aware image resize library

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one has one of the original authors and was filed in 2008: https://www.google.com/patents/US8280191 not sure about differences in claims. IANAPA

2008: Original Assignee Abode Systems Incorporated 2009: Original Assignee Eastman Kodak Company Perhaps the Kodak patent covers a hardware-implementation for their cameras?

_Eastman_ Kodak manufactures and distributes cinema film. The camera division is the _other_ Kodak.

Re: Content-aware image resize library

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Loosely tangental; can anyone recommend an image library management system they've had success with? Looking for uploading, thumb-nailing, search metadata, access levels and ideally some on-the-fly transformations like Cloudinary offer

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I remember first seeing content aware image scaling at Adobe MAX in Barcelona I think it was. We were completely dumbfounded by what was surely magic happening on stage. When they showed removing objects we just lost it, jaws on the floor and all. That was a fun conference.

It's super fun but I can't think of many real-world uses. Maybe in subtle, element-wise stretching and reshaping as part of more complex editing? Squeezing images is a huge no-no in any graphic design, and while content-aware resizing is a neat trick to avoid the most glaring problems, it's still image squeezing. You'd rather just crop the image or choose a different one.

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post #65

Loosely tangental; can anyone recommend an image library management system they've had success with? Looking for uploading, thumb-nailing, search metadata, access levels and ideally some on-the-fly transformations like Cloudinary offer

I would suggest having a look at Uploadcare, https://stackshare.io/uploadcare/how-uploadcare-built-a-stac... (though I am biased as a CEO)

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post #17

I remember first seeing content aware image scaling at Adobe MAX in Barcelona I think it was. We were completely dumbfounded by what was surely magic happening on stage. When they showed removing objects we just lost it, jaws on the floor and all. That was a fun conference.

It's super fun but I can't think of many real-world uses. Maybe in subtle, element-wise stretching and reshaping as part of more complex editing? Squeezing images is a huge no-no in any graphic design, and while content-aware resizing is a neat trick to avoid the most glaring problems, it's still image squeezing. You'd rather just crop the image or choose a different one.

> Squeezing images is a huge no-no in any graphic design

Surely this is true in journalism. I find it hard to believe it's true in ad work.

Re: Content-aware image resize library

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Came for the “seam carving”... okay. Didn’t expect image expanding... was blown away. Mix in temporal energy plus a ML objects DB, put that in a chip, and turn decades of 4:3 TV into widescreen!

I'm already quite interested in resizing wide images to square images for Convolutional Neural Networks training
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