Fraud 2.0: Content Aware Image Resizing (aka Seam Caving)

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Fraud 2.0: Content Aware Image Resizing (aka Seam Caving)

Posted by Korayem on October 1, 2007 06:28
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Let's first start with this video in case you didnt see it before.

Jaws dropped!? Sat down in a lonely corner thinking how will this change the world!? is the Matrix really inevitable? why the hell didn't you think of this simple DSP idea and implemented it in MATlab and be famous and rich!!??

Happened to me too and everyone who watched that video. Rumors has it that the guy behind this one-of-a-kind-yet-simple idea was hired in Adobe. I wonder why!?

And what about forging!? If your kids in the future will be able to remove their unwanted friends from group photos that easy, how easy will it be to fraud papers!!?? Will it be illegal in Egypt...sure will. It happend to the GPS, and Content-Aware Image Resizing is no exception.

BountyFisshing claimed in their blog that they know how to find cheaters who photoshop their fish to win some serious money. I wonder how their technique will change to catch forgers?

Unaltered image

Photoshopped image

Fish Measurement Photoshopped

So far so good. Now the geniuses behind this idea launched their own website showing the above video. AND A FULL ACADEMIC PAPER DESCRIBING HOW THE ALGORITHM WORKS!! Now you have no execuse to implement it in your next project, even if it's not part of the requirements...adding this feature will make customers happy all the way.

Wait, it doesnt stop there!! A whole breed of implementations are being spread right now:

Rsizr: Online flash application. (psst, download this image to play around with it)
Picutel Smart Resize: Photoshop plugin (95$)
Liquid Resize: GIMP (open-source) plugin
Flash Action Script Implementation: Source code and Tutorial
Seam CAIR: an open-source implmentation written with .NET by my Egyptian muslim brother, Haytham.

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October 1. 2007 13:09

i don't really like the idea but i like the algorithm behind it, i like my pictures to say the truth to me

Fady Anwar

October 4. 2007 02:56

You're absolutely correct, Fady. That's what I tried to emphasize. This will open doors to things we never put in consideration.

Korayem

January 11. 2010 23:32

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February 18. 2010 12:42

Me and my friend were arguing about an issue similar to this! Now I know that I was right. lol! Thanks for the information you post.

Andrew Baxter

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