Website puts you in the picture
Researchers at HP Labs have developed a website as a test bed for learning more about the complex challenge of automatically placing pictures, background designs and text on a ‘page’ of any given size.
For users of the autogreetingcard.com site, it is a chance to create unique greeting cards.
Qian Lin, director of HP’s Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Laboratory said that, unlike other digital greeting card services, autogreetingcard.com is smart enough to spot the faces in every picture the user wants featured on a card.
Give it six pictures of mum, dad and the children from which to make a 4in x 8in holiday collage, for example, and it will find the faces in each constituent image and at the same time crop their backgrounds, ensuring that each small picture still looks good.
Give it 50 pictures from which to choose the five best and it will prioritise images in which faces are the sharpest and largest in the frame.
‘Early on in our research, we realised that when it comes to content, faces are more important for cards than they are in other media, such as books,’ said Chris Willis, a researcher on the autogreetingcard team. ‘The whole beauty of what we’re doing here is that it lets you focus on what’s important - and that’s your family.’
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