It does not happen very often that I see a demonstration of a new technique and say something like “Wow, give it to me, NOW!” immediately after it finishes. This is one of the times that it actually happened. The real problem with images on websites is that they are more or less static. The webmaster selected a size for the image and this is the size that you see when you visit the page and it does not matter if you have a very small screen or a big one.
Text on the other hand can be resized quite easily to adapt to certain resolutions. Resizing images can also be problematic because they can easily look distorted or out of proportions when you do so. This new technique uses a system to determine the importance of pixels in an image and remove or resize the least important ones first.
This makes it possible to manipulate images without losing image quality or sharpness at all. Some tools can be used to mark spots on the image as important – faces for instance – or unimportant to further increase the quality of the resized image. Take a look at the demonstration video to get a closer look at this incredible technique.
via: OhGizmo!
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wow! that’s an amazing program! I want it :/
Amazing.
Impressive stuff, this is innovation
Did you know about Advanced Jpeg Compressor? It’s not free, but it can help achieve impressive results.
Features some useful presets, many options and automatic-rendering preview with nice handy scaling {so you see how hard image is corrupted by shrinking}.
And here, you can find my “map of useful software pack”. It was created in Freemind and rendered to .png image. Legend are mainly in Russian, but English terms used too.
Some programs mentioned there I met on GHacks, so I’m in some debt to you. And, if you ask about something you see in that list, I will explain, what it is and what it is good for.
very intresting topic michael!
presented on the same conference (sigraph2007) was a very intresting paper on scene completion.
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/
check it!
It’s really interesnting, see a demonstration of using this technology.
Enjoy the video :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc
Sooooo, what’s the name of the program and where is it available???