I recently watched this interesting video by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir from MERL. They developed an extremely cool image resizing technique called seam carving. They explain all about it in this article.
One of the coolest things about their idea is that is it easy to implement. I implemented a semi-optimized version of their algorithm in a couple of hours of coding. All the images in this post were generated by my code.
When I started yaniv.leviathanonline.com, I declared it to be a site about “Mathematics and Hacking”. As of now, most of its content is Mathematical. I thought it was time for a little change…
In 1998 (I can’t believe it was so long ago!) I was working at MATE (Media Access Technologies), an Israeli start-up at the time, specialising in face recognition and video searching. It was then that I came to know one of the coolest tricks in image recognition - the Hough Transform (pronounced “huf transform“).
