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Not to take away all of the credit, but this is very heavily based on a research paper, as pointed out elsewhere in the comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215894

(2 of the 4 authors are at Adobe Research, while the others are at Princeton Univ.)

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Hi this is Connelly I'm the first author on that paper. Adobe ATL's business model is that they do research and then put it in products. So Dan took the code I wrote for a summer internship (The paper you referenced. To be precise, we actually did the work in the fall before SIGGRAPH, because I only thought of the algorithm on my last week as an intern) and put it in Photoshop. So we're not ripping off anyone but ourselves :-).

By the way a shout to pg. I have mad respect for him and Jim Clark, both computer scientists/entrepreneurs who have worked really hard and selflessly to get engineers more equity over the wealth they create.

Awesome! Yeah, I realized that two of the authors were at Adobe and had a suspicion that you might have been an intern there as well, but wasn't sure.

As a computer vision researcher, I guess it sometimes irks me when I see great research work done, but credit for which often falls on the company that commercializes it.

Glad to hear that you were yourself involved at Adobe, and it seems like you've gotten a fair amount of good publicity from this great work. Congratulations!

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