Google Video Carving

With more and more people watching video in mobile devices, each with its own unique screen resolution and aspect ratio, never has video resizing been so important.

Many years ago, it would suffice to simply "cut off" parts of the image, or adding black bars... but today, Google is testing some more clever ways to do it:  inteligently resizing video using seamcarving.

It's not the first time I've talked about seamcarving applied to video, but the results are always... mesmerizing .

Photoshop CS5 Patch Match Intelligent Fill

After the amazing seamcarving technique, it was just a matter of time for it to be further expanded into things like the incredible patch match in Photoshop CS5.

This intelligent fill analyzes the texture of the selected areas, and allows you to easily remove elements from an image:

And, even more incredible, allows you to recreate missing parts of a picture based on its surroundings - which is really incredible when applied to panoramic stitched photos:

Here's a video showcasing these features in the upcoming Photoshop CS5:

PatchMatch and Video Seamcarving

Do you remember that amazing resizing method called seamcarving?

Looks like Photoshop CS5 will take that even further by using a new patchmatch plugin that makes complex element moving a trivial task. Just see for yourself:


PatchMatch: Structural Image Editing from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

And if you think these thing only work in static images, just check this video seamcarving examples to see how we'll soon be able to rescale video at will: