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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Re:This sums it up quite nicely by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-09 06:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Rule 34 FTW!
Re:Sketched by metlin · 2009-10-09 06:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That long?!
This is cool by cld71 · 2009-10-09 06:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This would be cool to use this software in a robot.
Yea, is this software opne source?
Re:Cool idea, but lacks specificity by PenisLands · 2009-10-09 07:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

BadAnalogyguy, I sent you some emails but you never replied. Why not?