Amazing Application - PhotoSketch
A new program called PhotoSketch built by five Chinese students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, is said to be able to turn a rough labeled sketch into a photograph montage!
According to authors, their software finds images corresponding to each drawn element, judge which are a better match to the shapes, and then seamlessly merge it all into one single image.
Truly amazing! I am having a hard time believing that it actually works and I couldn't test it as the server hosting the application collapsed due to the huge traffic the news generated. What do you think?
Links:
Gizmodo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6265876/PhotoSketch-picture-software-wins-plaudits.html
.... really?
Submitted by tommy on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 1:44pm.
Ok, this is the original
Ok, this is the original source for everyone else, i think
http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm
.... really?
Does the software fetch the
Does the software fetch the pictures from anywhere or do you have to provide it with a list of pictures to chose from?
This can't be real. Or
This can't be real. Or probably does a very bad job.
It appears too good to be
It appears too good to be true. But I looked at the video and the the whole thing seems feasible. The video says the search is done on the internet. It seems that the efficacy of the search depends on the subjects and the text labels you choose. Anyhoo, I will be looking into the algorithms mentioned.
.... really?
umm....
umm....
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