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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

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Post by nikcub »

killerswan wrote: post #2

Huh? 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.

should go through the archives on MLB.com - I bet there are plenty of other examples

Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots

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Post by HardyLeung »

fizx wrote: post #4

Sounds 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

The image cannot be the result of seam-carving because SC does not result in duplicated patches of the region. Moreover, the patching up (as others mentioned, to remove the scores) results in both non-zero offset both horizontally and vertically, which will not happen if you run SC (you'd expect either horizontal or vertical movements).

Re: How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots

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Post by spydum »

geraldalewis wrote: post #10

Just 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…

Figured I wouldn't be the only one to spot this -- seems obvious this is the reasoning. Article got it wrong..
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