Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting

The video accompanying our paper Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting. Authors: Michael Rubinstein, Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan. This work is scheduled to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2008. Project webpage: www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCW...

[@veggiet2009]

this is what needs to be done to convert 4:3 to 16:9. the current "partial stretch" methods that tv's have built in are not enough

[@Redrang604]

I did a simple implementation of this in JAVA last year, cool stuff.

[@Blooper1980]

WOW!, did not understand 1/2 of it, but the basic concept is AMAZING! WOW

[@guyboy625]

I think adding letterbox bars is still the best idea.

[@bernd_the_almighty]

the idea sounds so simple

[@liukang85]

Still cool

[@evilagram]

Entire videos. Damn.
I was wondering how that would distort moving pictures. The forward energy algorithm really works a lot better. I wonder how it functions in videos with a lot of distortion.

[@TheBokanist]

Have you seen the prices of Adobe products ? They are definitely not for general public...

[@thesystemera]

Why have I not got this in Adobe After Effects yet?

[@vladislav.radionov]

now is 2020...

[@j2kun]

Link broken. Provide another link.

[@tr3vk4m]

OK. This is 5 years old. When are we gonna see seam carving media players?

[@starzandearth]

YOOO WTFFFF