Software Photoshops Any Image You Want
A research project converts crude sketches into photorealistic scenes using Internet photographs.
Will Knight 10/06/2009
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This video shows software that can turn crude sketches into remarkably slick Photoshoped images by stitching together photographs grabbed from the Internet.
The software, called PhotoSketch, was created by students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore in China. It will be demoed in December at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.
To use PhotoSketch, a user simply sketches a scene, using blobs to represent different components, with descriptive tags added to each blob. The software uses the tags to search for potentially
suitable images on the Internet. It then tries to match the components within those
images with those in the sketch and with a background before presenting the
user with a selection of snaps that go together nicely. The video also includes a nice explanation of the
technology. The resulting images are often very realistically
Photoshopped.
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dtutelman
117 Comments
Most cool!
I'd really like to give this a try. Not only clever, but could be very useful for illustrating the sort of educational articles I write.
One foreseeable problem could be legal: the rights to the images.
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ronaldoport
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very cool!
When I think the world is going to he** in a handbasket, I check out incredible things coming down the pike as reported by MIT's Tech Review and have faith in the world again. ... no offense, but, I sure wish we saw as numerous innovations by Americans.
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