New Technologies Continue to Enhance the Power of Digital Photos
August 20th, 2007 by Anderson SchoenrockAmazing developments continue in the world of digital photography. James Hays and Alexei A. Efros of Carnegie Mellon University released a new algorithm today professor and fourth-year PHd student at Carnegie Mellon released a powerful new algorithm today which creates the ability to fill-in blanks or replace unwanted parts of a digital photo. The algorithm draws on a huge database of more than a million images from the internet in order to seamlessly fill in the missing areas of incomplete photos.
Reasons for wanting to repair these photos span from a patch of bright light affecting the image or an unwanted person, shadow or object that is negatively impacting the image.
The algorithm is amazing in that it provides a number of different options to complete the photo allowing the user to select the one that they find most suitable. The example below demonstrates the power of the new algorithm.
More details can be found at the following page: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/
Very interesting and ground breaking technology!
August 20th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Anderson,
Great article. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. This really gets me thinking about a ton of different applications. I hope this get rolled into solid commercial uses that bring this technology to the masses. Keep up the excellent blogging!
Thanks,
Kendall