Seam-carving imagesSubmitted by JimL on Wed, 08/22/2007 - 1:55pm.
Two researchers have just given photo editors new ethical issues to deal with. This technique allows someone to alter the aspect ratio of an image without changing elements that are essential to the viewer's sense of perspective. As the video shows, it also allows important elements of the image to be removed, Soviet-style, with greater ease than before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg ( topics: General Media )
Getting stuff into and out of pictures is easy with Photoshop. This just makes it faster and allows a machine to do it 'intelligently' - You send or store the entire picture to the machine, then when it comes time to display it it can adapt it to the thing you're vieweing it with. This is not really such a "harmful" techonology... It has many good uses, such as being able to properly surf the web from a cell phone. An explicative post (with nice illustrations) is available at http://yaniv.leviathanonline.com/blog/math/seam-carving/ Post new comment |
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This has so many frightening implications that I'd like to be the first to demand that any use of such a tool be clearly labeled when used in news gathering/reporting. Distorted reality - and absolutely fake news.