Interesting new content-aware algorithm to resize images. It seems to be able to remove un-important areas when an image is resized: Check out the YouTube video. It’s very impresive, but as the image is altered, I’m not 100% sold on the concept. The paper entitled “Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing” was presented at Siggraph 2007. If you feel the need to play, an ImageJ plugin has just been made. Woohoo!!!

JMAGE is very cool. It is a JSP tag lib that makes it very easy to do image processing. It has tags to resize, crop, rotate, brighten, darken, ovelay an image, add a background, add text, convert to greyscale, blur, detect edges and apply a lowpass filter. This could certainly be used to create a Web 2.0 service.