Algorithm draws on millions of images to fill blanks

Anach · Unread post by **Anach** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:20 pm

August 17, 2007 The advent of digital photography has opened up a new world of image editing possibilities including the ability to fill-in blanks or replace unwanted parts of an image. A new algorithm devised by James Hayes and Alexei A. Efros of Carnegie Mellon University facilitates this process by drawing on a huge database of more than a million images from the World Wide Web in order to seamlessly fill in the missing areas of incomplete photographs.

Parrot · Unread post by **Parrot** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:35 pm

Geek !

Anach · Unread post by **Anach** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:38 pm

You think thats geeky. Look at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns

From here

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/08/im ... avy_h.html

Now you can erase your ex from your images, instead of chopping them

Parrot · Unread post by **Parrot** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:42 pm

Where is Photoshop when I need it !