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		crazygringo on April 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript Son of a gun, this is why I love HN. Thank you! And it turns out the results are shockingly good, far better than I expected. They have demo videos at: https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/video_re... My favorite is: Original: https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/videos/w... Narrowed: https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/videos/w... Widened: https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/videos/w... Just wow.

andersource on April 17, 2021 [–]

Gladly! And yeah, the results really are quite good. This is why I like optimization problems - if you can formally capture what you want as an objective, and if you can find a way to optimize it, you can get surprisingly good results. Of course these are two very big IFs...

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