Web photo ethics: Things just got worse

A algorithm developed by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan that will automatically resize photos by disregarding pixels paths that contain the least amount of information.

In the great words of Ze Frank, "Holy crap on your mom's shoes!" I can't believe it. I am speechless. What does this mean for ethics and photojournalism and the need for immediacy on the web? Heart-attack.

More info about the program is located below the video.





Name of the system is Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing.
The programmers are Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.
Article: Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (PDF)

Blogs that talk about it...
I Want This In Photoshop Immediately
Fascinating! Content Aware Image Resizing

Original Source:
The Marker IT (Hebrew)