Cool stuff. I wonder what patents there are on this technique, hopefully it'll get added to web browsers sooner or later...

Stalin would have had a field day with that last feature had he been around when this technology was available.

Neat. I can think of a couple of novel uses: resolution independent webpages, and pan and scan movies (without the pan and scan).

That is pretty neat, I'd like to see it in Paint Shop Pro.

It should be mentioned that, even excluding the obvious removal weighting at the end, this is fundamentally different from cropping or resizing as this changes the picture, the result can no longer be considered representative of what the picture was originally about - so it shouldn't be used in advertising media or anything like that although of course, the same can be said of the many photoshop lies that are displayed to us. Cropping can change the context of something and resizing can lose essential detail but unless you change the aspect ratio, it's still a picture of the original subject. This technique is not.

That's a million miles away from saying it shouldn't be used, don't get me wrong, just that it can be abused.

Upvote. I love this stuff. Wonder when/if this will be commercially available.

Sweet, betcha someone figures out how to do that frame-by-frame to downloaded movies to foil automated piracy filters. Once you substantially change an image that way, any watermarks would be destroyed.

Heck, it'd be cool just to watch a movie in a decent, believable widescreen made from a 4:3 original. TV manufacturers will probably be all over this tech.

Gotta love Siggraph. Now if someone would give me a damn job for all my image processing/computer vision knowledge.

This is awesome! Can't wait to see it available to the public. Problem is now that photoshopping images just got a whole hell of a lot easier so I expect we'd start seeing more shady images come out.

This was probably my favorite paper at SIGGRAPH this year. But I'm skeptical of how well it performs at image completion compared with traditional image completion tools.

would be great to have it in 16:9 TVs to display a 4:3 channel, full-size.
my Philips has a filter that pretends to do so, but it just suck.

>> ^looris:
would be great to have it in 16:9 TVs to display a 4:3 channel, full-size.
my Philips has a filter that pretends to do so, but it just suck.


Holy CRAP, that'd take some serious processing power! 128 core processors, we need your help.

*engineering

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by oxdottir.