Aug 13, 2007, 22:02
Don't you just hate those times when your shot of a beautiful cathedral has been ruined by the presence of someone's head or an ugly truck in the background?
This is a pretty cool read - there's a 11mb pdf file in the link, which describes an algorithm to replace unwanted parts of an image with parts from other photos. Some researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed an algorithm that patches up areas in these images by searching for a replacement area in similar images in a large image database.
http://www.dcviews.com/press/Digital-manipulation.htm
Some nice examples there - well worth seeing...
This is a pretty cool read - there's a 11mb pdf file in the link, which describes an algorithm to replace unwanted parts of an image with parts from other photos. Some researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed an algorithm that patches up areas in these images by searching for a replacement area in similar images in a large image database.
http://www.dcviews.com/press/Digital-manipulation.htm
Some nice examples there - well worth seeing...