A Use for Smartphone Photos

Like the idea.<p>I often take a couple of shots of the same thing just to experiment; probably a symptom of growing up shooting digital. I guess you're just banking on randomness preventing dupes from showing too often or manually removing them.

Blog doesn't scroll on my smartphone,so I couldn't read the post.(Standard browser on droid running android 2.2.3.)

The cropping algorithm seems like a two-dimensional version of the one Reddit uses for its thumbnails.

We did similar things with images in this Codebrawl: <a href="http://codebrawl.com/contests/content-aware-image-cropping-with-chunkypng" rel="nofollow">http://codebrawl.com/contests/content-aware-image-cropping-w...</a>

It might be interesting to see this algorithm implemented in a photo-organizing software. Just like we have auto-levels, we can also have auto-crop.

Here's a similar tool that uses ImageMagick and PHP: <a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/06/opticrop-content-aware-cropping-with-php-and-imagemagick/" rel="nofollow">http://jueseph.com/2010/06/opticrop-content-aware-cropping-w...</a>

I learned from a designer friend of mine a long time ago that image resizing to smaller sizes makes them blurry - if you'd just sharpen them a bit it makes a world of difference. It also isn't all that hard to do in Python.

That's quite clever. Good work! Shame this didn't occur to me a couple of years ago when I needed it. :) Ah well.

hope someone ports this to RoR and includes an installation guide. would make for a very fine photo gallery.

How does it do with faces?

please change your font. it is hard to read in my chrome.