WOW! is the very first thing that popped into my mind. The second thing was how many copyrights are going to be broken.

photosketch

Using a simple line drawing a user can create a digital composite of images snagged/borrowed from the internet.  I mean really, the potential magnitude of copyright infringement here is simply mind boggling.

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple
freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture
is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement
with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching
the Internet. 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. 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; we also evaluate our system using
the results from two user studies.

Watch the video and tell us what you think we can’t wait to hear. Don’t get me wrong the tech is uber cool but do we really need a program that can do this? Let’s hope it’s nothing more than a proof of concept.

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