Nov 19 2007

“Seam carving” now for video

Published by peter at 9:23 am under video tech, online video, photojournalism, videojournalists

Back in August I linked to a video on “intelligent” photo resizing and wondered how long it would be before they could successfully port the same technology to manipulate video. The answer it seems was just a matter of weeks:

…showing off a new twist on the technology, Ariel Shamir did the seam carving on a running video of a golfer taking a swing. The golfer remained intact even as the fairway changed from a narrow sliver to a broad tract of green grass - extracams
(link includes video)

Shai Avidan, who developed seam carving along with Ariel Shamir now works for Adobe in the US. Seam carving for video in After Effects 8?

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