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Ok, what useful things ever came out of Intelligent Systems? Not much, but this topic is inspired by the area Computer Vision. Overall, this is one of those useful things that could have been done a long time ago, but the principles, though simple, were never applied. Here is the video, prepare to be amazed

A researcher who helped implement the algorithm is employed by Adobe so expect to seem some cool applications in the coming future. Maybe they will integrate it into browsers eventually and cause a whole new world of pain for front end web developers . Or, expect to see some awesome dynamically resizing videos for different devices, easily watch a widescreen dvd on your new n800.

Benjamin Willis