Great work! Fast and easy to use.
Just curious why more and more projects dont support opera =(
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#52Great work! Fast and easy to use. Just curious why more and more projects dont support opera =(
They lacked some of the HTML5 features we needed in the client :-/
(the detection script should be accurate, so if they add them it should "just work")
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#53Great work! Fast and easy to use. Just curious why more and more projects dont support opera =(
You have Chrome, Firefox, and even Safari. What compels you to use Opera over any of those?
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#54I actually wrote my honours thesis on this topic. In academia it's called Alpha Matting/Image Matting. There's a great website http://alphamatting.com/ that provides a benchmark dataset and a comparison of a lot of influential methods. I applaud your work in making a real time and interactive matting algorithm! One day it might be also as accurate as state of the art methods. You guys should write a paper about your…
(I'm one of the devs.)
Thanks for the link! Real time is a pretty big constraint, and the input for those results is a much more complete labeling than we expect (only 22 to 44 pixels around the ground truth boundary are left uncertain). But I'll definitely read the paper and hopefully we can gain some insights from it!
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#55This is really slick. I work at a newspaper where we do a lot of cutouts and I've looked at several automatic tools to save people time, and I think this is the best I have seen in terms of balancing ease of use with accuracy.
The only thing I might suggest is that for photos with softer edges, you might offer some degree of "feathering" on the edges of the cut out. I don't know how hard this is with your algorithm, but it seems like it might be an easy fix.
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#57This is really slick. I work at a newspaper where we do a lot of cutouts and I've looked at several automatic tools to save people time, and I think this is the best I have seen in terms of balancing ease of use with accuracy. The only thing I might suggest is that for photos with softer edges, you might offer some degree of "feathering" on the edges of the cut out. I don't know how hard this is with your algorithm,…
(I'm one of the devs.) Thanks! Yes, adding user-controlled edge blur is a great idea. So much to do, so little time.
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#58Very cool. Stalled each time for me at the "initializing" phase when using Safari 6.0.1 (OS X 10.8.2), but worked like a charm in Chrome.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, the help popped up for an instant but then instantly vanished. Does it only appear during upload/init? That process can go quickly…
We only auto-show it during that time. The hope is that it triggers you to click the button if you need it, but lets you ignore it if you already know the drill... (all these wonderful tradeoffs between "first visit" vs "repeat visit" - and what if it was missed the first time, blabla... )
The animation was a bit too quick to make that behaviour obvious, so I just tried without it the first time. I thought it was a bug.
The second time I loaded an image, it did the same thing, and only then did I actually click Help.
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#60Very cool! I've seen this technique before in research papers and their videos, but not as actual software.
The one suggestion I would make is to follow Photoshop's shortcuts. Space-Drag to move the image, [ or ] to change the brush size, scroll wheel to zoom (already there), and letters to select the various brushes.