Dynamic image manipulation technology using "energy seams"

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Here's the paper. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1276377.1276390

Also got some coverage on an Adobe blog which makes me think they want to duplicate this functionality as soon as possible. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/08/holy_crapworthy.html

The paper you linked is behind a paywall :(

Here's a free version from the author himself:

Paper: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/imret.pdf

Hi-rez video: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/IMRet-All.mov

PS: This stuff is probably in the process of getting patented. Adobe will have to license it. Few years back Adobe got into a lot of trouble for "stealing" healing brush from one guy. He sued them and I think they settled.

sorry about that and thanks for the link, I'm gonna miss my University tunnel when I graduate/drop out.

don't drop out :)

It's just a fantasy, I do Industrial Engineering and it's a truly miserable field. I get to drop out and move to NYC if my company hits 300k revenue next year.

The 2D image processing stuff at Siggraph this year was truly exceptional. I usually skip right through that part of the conference and proceedings, but this year there were a few really cool things.

This was pretty cool too:

http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/softscissors/

That is beyond awesome.

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