Visually compelling images and fast site load speed are two major factors that affect visitor engagement, buying decisions, and overall customer experience on a website. But there’s a dilemma: numerous high-quality images significantly slow down …
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Color Recognition: Extract Dominant Colors From Any Image Automatically
Training your system to recognize colors in images can automate a lot of your routine processes, from image filing and database organization to palette creation. The thing is, building such a solution in-house isn’t something …
Continue readingFace Blur: Provide Visual Anonymity With Just a Few Clicks
It’s a fact: people have a right to digital privacy. Here’s one more: online publishers and businesses worldwide must respect those rights and provide visual anonymity when it’s needed. That’s why we decided to give …
Continue readingHow to Accelerate Image Resizing Without Screwing Up
With so many devices on the market, it’s a challenge to make on-site images match each screen size. This is what happens (hopefully) in milliseconds before a visitor sees the actual webpage. The faster the …
Continue readingThe fastest production-ready image resize out there, part 1: general optimizations
In the introductory article, I provided a comprehensive summary of the challenge. The story turned out to be rather long and a bit half-baked: it did not contain a single line of code. However, it’s …
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