A while back I posted a picture of the world’s tallest man, Bao Xishun, meeting the world’s shortest man, He Pingping, although Mr. Pingping’s title is not official. It turns out there’s also a brief video of the meet up, but it’s not very exciting. Honestly, I don’t think the world’s tallest man was that […]
Once upon a time, I bought a Wii. It’s a good time. The brilliance of the Wii is, of course, its controllers. Traditional video game controllers focus mainly on pushing buttons while manipulating a joystick. The Wiimote, in contrast, has relatively few buttons and no joystick (although you can add one by attaching the Wiimote’s […]
First off, since I already mentioned web-based photoshop, here’s an update (don’t worry, there’s a video, you won’t need to read anything).
Second, here’s a hot video demoing some content-aware image resizing research first presented at SIGGRAPH 2007. It’s a fairly simple idea that works surprisingly well.
Normally when you shrink an image you either make […]
A few weeks ago I alluded to an amazing computer science class I took in which we tried to identify a car from some extremely poor surveillance video. In movies and TV shows enhancing video is a snap, but for some reason just typing “enhance” while watching the video didn’t work on our machines. Instead […]