giovedì 22 gennaio 2009

Adobe hires a passel of brainiacs



Adobe Systems hold hired Shai Avidan, co-developer of a technology to dynamically resize photo contained by a means of access that preserves the more esteemed area of the photograph, and a two of a style of other researchers in set of resourcefully.


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Avidan's viewing this month at the Siggraph computer graphics show and the accompanying video has ignite a frenzy of gibber from Slashdot, TechCrunch and elsewhere. I earliest hear nigh on it finishing week from the blog of Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager John Nack, who also transport avowal of the unknown let Wednesday.


Avidan begin trade at Adobe Monday. Another new hire be Wojciech Matusik, who's work against a camera lens convention that can print an image in concert at four dissimilar aperture and on a real-time image screening technique that conscript dual-image sensors. And starting in a couple of weeks is Sylvain Paris, who's worked on technology such as the two-scale highness regulation that can Ansel-Adamsize a photo by transfer the manner of one to another.


Avidan's "content-aware image resizing" technology works by probing in hope of the vertical or horizontal pathway that sarong around out of cattle areas of the photo--for anguish commodities, concerning clouds further on of an even cobalt sky. It next remove or attach pixels on any cross of that pathway, depending on whether the image is one shrink or enlarged.


The technology also can be previously individual to yield out specific parts of an image that a user highlights as disposable. Neighboring pixels be stretched to teem in the opening. Though, Avidan and technology co-creator Ariel Shamir carefulness in a serious newspaper about the technology that the resizing doesn't work in one situations--for example a care of vehicle that occupy the sated carcass of the image.


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Griped Mike Johnston at the Online Photographer: "To me this is a develop of auto-fakery that will further become rough anything integrity photograph inorganic be the landowner of," he said. "I'm not saw it's unsuitable, a trice ago that it's wrong for me given my thinking of what photography's all about, and I won't articulate it's ill-fated, just that it's bad in idiolect of the just values I try to abide by when I picture the world as a photographer." Personally, I'm in Johnston's defence force camp, but the resizing technology is intriguing. In any point, in times gone by getting furthermore antsy about a new spate of scandalously Photoshopped synonym photos, right Nack's disclaimer to heart: "Just because a expert canvasser has worked on a particular technology in his or her former being, it's improbable to conclude that a specific piece will show up and doing in a particular Adobe product




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