PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm

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PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 9, 2009 @05:53AM from the photoshop-forum-goofs-rejoice dept.

PhotoSketch, a new image manipulation program that combines stick-figure sketches, internet image search and pattern matching, seems to be spreading like wildfire. Created by five Chinese students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, the tool takes a basic sketch and simple labels and turns it into a polished image. "Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images," say the PhotoSketch team in an abstract outlining the tool. "We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful."

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Sketched by Iriscal · 2009-10-09 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny

This image looks sketched. I can tell from a few of the pixels, and from having seen a few sketches in my time.
What everyone want's to know... by jo42 · 2009-10-09 05:56 · Score: 3, Funny

If you sketch a big circle and two hands, will it come up with goatse?
1. Re:What everyone want's to know... by aicrules · 2009-10-09 06:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If you tagged the big circle with distended anus, then probably so.
This sums it up quite nicely by al0ha · 2009-10-09 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny

The authors of the program--Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, and Shi-Min Hu at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, and the National University of Singapore--presented it at Siggraph Asia 2009.

An event that will be remembered forever in the History of Humanity as the day in which a million dorks were finally able to put themselves in X-rated positions with Megan Fox.

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1. Re:This sums it up quite nicely by Jah-Wren+Ryel · 2009-10-09 14:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm amazed at how well this seems to automatically extract subjects from their background, something that usually requires a lot of painstaking manual work... honestly that's the real challenge of "photoshopping", becoming a ninja with the selection tools.
  The reason the software is a binary distribution is because it is actually sending the images to hundreds of thousands of chinese prisoners who are being made to use pirated copies of photoshop to select out the figures from the backgrounds and then send the results back.
  
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OH GREAT by mujadaddy · 2009-10-09 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Now NO ONE will believe the pics of me with Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale and Dolly Madison are real!

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Photoshopped Politics by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-09 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny

This will make things way easier for Iran and North Korea.
Re:Cool idea, but lacks specificity by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2009-10-09 06:10 · Score: 3, Funny

I hope they can work out the kinks.
Oh, don't be so boring . . . let them leave the kink in!

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Let's download binaries from China! by winkydink · 2009-10-09 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Anybody else see what's wrong with this picture?

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1. Re:Let's download binaries from China! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-09 06:55 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Seem to run about right here at Fermilabs.
Re:The end of creativity by Carthag · 2009-10-09 06:30 · Score: 3, Funny

A Scanner Darkly
Re:xkcd by GaryOlson · 2009-10-09 07:30 · Score: 3, Funny

A single XKCD comic? Apply to all XKCD comics, then turn all the comics into a streaming video. See if you obtain a higher level of conciousness.

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Re:Cool idea, but lacks specificity by Jesus_666 · 2009-10-09 07:57 · Score: 3, Funny

You mean except for the binary on the website (linked to in another comment)?

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