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Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images

Posted by kdawson on from the mind-the-gap dept.

Beetle B. writes in with research from Carnegie Mellon demonstrating a new way to replace arbitrarily shaped blank areas in an image with portions of images from a huge catalog in a totally seamless manner. From the abstract: "In this paper we present a new image completion algorithm powered by a huge database of photographs gathered from the Web. The algorithm patches up holes in images by finding similar image regions in the database that are not only seamless but also semantically valid. Our chief insight is that while the space of images is effectively infinite, the space of semantically differentiable scenes is actually not that large. For many image completion tasks we are able to find similar scenes which contain image fragments that will convincingly complete the image. Our algorithm is entirely data-driven, requiring no annotations or labelling by the user."

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  1. Finally... by setirw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uncensored Japanese pornography!

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    1. Re:Finally... by voxel · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd go more like this:

      You take a picture of that cute girl at the coffee shop. Snap her with the camera phone, erase all those pesky clothes, and let the algorithm do its thing.

      You wait for the algorithm to finish, it says "Done", you get all excited and click the button to see the result, and.... * DOH *, it put all her clothes back on, albeit a different color and style.

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  2. w00t! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was as if a million fake celebrity pr0n websites cried and were suddenly silenced...

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  3. What will it do if... by iknownuttin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I take a picture of a hole?

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  4. DO NOT use it on your Porn-Collection! by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    You never know what that "kinda-like" picture used to patch contains. You might get the opposite of what you want.

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  5. pfft by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    CSI Miami and NY have had infinite zoom capability with photos for years, and you excited about this? Bah.

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  6. Will it be as smart of MS Word? by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instead of "You appear to be writing a letter. Should I format it for you?" I guess we'll get "You appear to be viewing Japanese pornography. Should I de-pixelate it for you?"

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    1. Re:Will it be as smart of MS Word? by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm going to have to take out trademark and patent on Clitty, your helpful little hentai fixing friend!

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  7. Now we need a patch for dead servers by objekt · · Score: 4, Funny

    We need a new way to replace slashdotted servers with portions of articles from a huge catalog in a totally seamless manner.

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