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Sounds like this could be a seam-carving or patch-match algorithm in play. These are used to resize images without distortion.

A research video called "Image Resizing by Seam Carving"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc



Here is how it's done in photoshop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI (2:45)

It seems someone decided to remove the banner from the video frame. Have a look at the left guys hat, there is a little "v" from where the banner was (in the top red oval).

Edited: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/5733655921_b28748984b_o.... Original: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5734289061_34f76398e9_b....


The image cannot be the result of seam-carving because SC does not result in duplicated patches of the region. Moreover, the patching up (as others mentioned, to remove the scores) results in both non-zero offset both horizontally and vertically, which will not happen if you run SC (you'd expect either horizontal or vertical movements).


There's an even better version that works with video: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/site/seam-video.asp


Hmm I remember seeing that video before. Extremely clever technology.




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