[Gimp-user] Image resizing based upon image content

[Konstantin Svist]

buralex at gmail.com wrote:
> Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> said on Oct 04, 2007 15:54 -0400 
> (in part):
>> Kevin Cozens wrote:
>>   
>>> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> >   
>>>     
>>>> >> There is an amazing video describing an image resizing algorithm that
>>>> >> removes (or adds) pixels based upon their importance to the subjecto
>>>> >> of the photo. Can this be implemented in The Gimp?
>>>> >>     
>>>>       
>>> > Of course it can be implemented in GIMP. It just takes someone with the time 
>>> > and ability to write the code for a plug-in that implements the algorithm.
>>> >   
>>>     
> I don't think the one you point to below is the same as Liquid Resizer
> (see http://schumaml.gmxhome.de/downloads/gimp/ and d/l 
> http://schumaml.gmxhome.de/downloads/gimp/gimp-lqr-plugin-0.1.3.zip 
> for it).
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like someone has implemented it already:
>> http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=5479
>> http://zinx.xmms.org/colorize/
>>
>> Trying to compile the supporting libraries.. it's a PITA, unfortunately.
> I hope you succeed - the colorizer looks like it would be a lot of fun 
> to play with.
> >From the Readme there, here is a pdf and an abstract from the 
> algorithm author:
>
>     * http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alevin/papers/colorization-siggraph04.pdf
>     * http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/
>
> Popping up to his home page it looks like he's done a lot of 
> interesting "stuff":
> http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/
>
> If you succeed would you be generating for Win32 platform? (hopefully 
> :-) )

You're absolutely right. The plugin for context-sensitive resizing is 
located at http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ (is it the same one as in 
your links?). I got it to work fairly easily.
I was hunting for it and the colorizer plugin and got the two confused 
in my head :D
The colorizer plugin seems very cool, especially since I have a lot of 
old b/w photos that I'd love to colorize

As far as generating it for win32.. I'm using Linux, so probably no. 
I'll post what I've done if you're interested (when I get it working, of 
course).