How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
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How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
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Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#2Huh? Since when does "In no way would we manipulate any photos" equate to having software automatically shuffle people around in the stands?
I bet this software automatically manipulates photos for them every single day.
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#3Looks to me like someone has cloned areas to cover the score overlays that were present in the original.
You can see a line in the top right of the manipulated image - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/5733655921_b28748984b_o....
Which matches the position of the score banner shown on the original - http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5734289061_34f76398e9_b....
Unlikely this was done 'accidentally'
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#4Sounds like this could be a seam-carving or patch-match algorithm in play. These are used to resize images without distortion.
A research video called "Image Resizing by Seam Carving"
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#5Huh? Since when does "In no way would we manipulate any photos" equate to having software automatically shuffle people around in the stands? I bet this software automatically manipulates photos for them every single day.
What they're saying is that it's an accident rather than "yeah, we photoshop our photos to make the crowd look bigger --- standard procedure."
Who cares anyway?
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#6Looks to me like someone has cloned areas to cover the score overlays that were present in the original. You can see a line in the top right of the manipulated image - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/5733655921_b28748984b_o.... Which matches the position of the score banner shown on the original - http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5734289061_34f76398e9_b.... Unlikely this was done 'accidentally'
Nice find, that makes a lot of sense. There's another line in the top-left, note the blue-jacket guy getting cut off at about the same height.
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#7Sounds like this could be a seam-carving or patch-match algorithm in play. These are used to resize images without distortion. A research video called "Image Resizing by Seam Carving" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc
There's an even better version that works with video: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/site/seam-video.asp
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#8Sounds like this could be a seam-carving or patch-match algorithm in play. These are used to resize images without distortion. A research video called "Image Resizing by Seam Carving" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc
Here is how it's done in photoshop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI (2:45)
It seems someone decided to remove the banner from the video frame. Have a look at the left guys hat, there is a little "v" from where the banner was (in the top red oval).
Edited: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/5733655921_b28748984b_o.... Original: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5734289061_34f76398e9_b....
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#9Sounds like this could be a seam-carving or patch-match algorithm in play. These are used to resize images without distortion. A research video called "Image Resizing by Seam Carving" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc
Hmm I remember seeing that video before. Extremely clever technology.
Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
#10Just to clarify: no robots were involved in photoshopping the image. Regardless of the author's "trusted source's" statement, the image is clearly shopped to remove the score overlays on a video still (as @mrnibbles http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571979 mentions). The cloned areas of the original image indicate that whatever entity did the shopping had a contextual understanding of the image, which means it was a human (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/5733655921_b28748984b_o.... -> http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5734289061_34f76398e9_b.... -- note that the foreground subjects are not `cloned`).
This was either a quick hack job by a person, or the work of an extremely sophisticated machine vision program.