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This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

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Re: This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

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Post by Pistos2 »

albertsun wrote: post #15
chime wrote: post #2

I'm having a very hard time believing that this is real. If it is, they have just made breakthroughs in multiple domains in computer graphics, recognition, and composition at the same time. Here's hoping it's real.

The Gizmodo story says that they presented it at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. According to http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/ that doesn't take place until December.

Well, it is listed here: http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/for_attendees/technical_pap... "Friday, 18 December | 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Room 301/302" Not sure what to think. Maybe they're writing in past tense in the same way sports sites write "such and such team played on Tuesday" even though it was Tuesday at the time of writing.

Re: This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

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Post by apu »

albertsun wrote: post #15
chime wrote: post #2

I'm having a very hard time believing that this is real. If it is, they have just made breakthroughs in multiple domains in computer graphics, recognition, and composition at the same time. Here's hoping it's real.

The Gizmodo story says that they presented it at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. According to http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/ that doesn't take place until December.

Papers for SIGGRAPH & SIGGRAPH Asia are accepted a few months before the conference.

These are the best two conferences in computer graphics, and the bar to get in is extremely high -- reviewers are very very tough and submitted papers have to not only be technically accurate, but also very polished in writing and presentation (and video).

That being said, a lot of these kind of systems have been coming out in the past few years, and it's a little hard to judge how successful they are due to the enormous amount of work required to reproduce results (their releasing a binary is commendable).

My own personal feeling is that this system probably works quite well for "common" things in their database, but there might be many small artifacts in generated images. Also, if you start trying to include stuff that's not well represented in the database, then the artifacts probably become quite severe.

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Post by gnaritas »

stcredzero wrote: post #23
ABrandt wrote: post #10

Alright I may have a tendency to be overly excited about new technologies, but this is seriously amazing. The possibilities (and problems) that arise from this application are vast. This could completely revolutionize the stock photography industry and web design in general. Copyright and privacy issues are my greatest concern though. For example, could you imagine seeing yourself as a digital model on some corporate…

Sounds like hyperbole, but this technology has the potential to change the way people use language and speak and think. Ever notice how many Americans use "like" as a preamble to a reenactment of a scene from a TV show, or an event, or even an abstracted, generalized occurrence? "It was like..." then on to the enactment. People wouldn't speak like this if it wasn't for ubiquitous video entertainment. In David Brin's…

People wouldn't speak like this if it weren't for California girls in the 80's.

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Post by ja2ke »

chime wrote: post #2

I'm having a very hard time believing that this is real. If it is, they have just made breakthroughs in multiple domains in computer graphics, recognition, and composition at the same time. Here's hoping it's real.

Siggraph is home to some crazy presentations. I'm always surprised by the more impressive videos and papers, but on the other hand, never that surprised, just because it's always only one step crazier than the crazy thing from last year's.

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Post by anigbrowl »

gnaritas wrote: post #33
stcredzero wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like hyperbole, but this technology has the potential to change the way people use language and speak and think. Ever notice how many Americans use "like" as a preamble to a reenactment of a scene from a TV show, or an event, or even an abstracted, generalized occurrence? "It was like..." then on to the enactment. People wouldn't speak like this if it wasn't for ubiquitous video entertainment. In David Brin's…

People wouldn't speak like this if it weren't for California girls in the 80's.

That's not just a California thing, actually. Growing up in 1970s Ireland, the word was sprinkled liberally throughout our sentences, like. You may like this exploration of metaphor as a fundamental part of consciousness (if so, do follow up and read the mentioned book): http://www.therebel.org/opinion/health/the_thing_to_be_descr...

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Post by jeremyawon »

chime wrote: post #2

I'm having a very hard time believing that this is real. If it is, they have just made breakthroughs in multiple domains in computer graphics, recognition, and composition at the same time. Here's hoping it's real.

the automated object recognition and extraction is what impresses me. everything else is a killer usage example of that core technology.
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