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

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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.

My guess is that it's real, but that it doesn't usually work as well as the example images provided. If it really works for any kind of input sketch, then how come there are so many images of dogs catching frisbees and bears catching fish?

The algorithm is optimized for dogs/Frisbees and bears/fish.

Reminds me of a company I worked for they were working on a video compression and the video source the developers had was a security camera.

The compression was optimized for bookshelves and hand waving.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This guy got downvoted for giving the most informative comment in this thread?

Well, I think he got his karma back now. But yeah, the way some people downvote gives me a funny feeling.

I'm tired of meta-comments. I'd rather discuss the link. I down vote all meta-comments.

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

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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.

"Real" is relative. It might be "real" for a set of a hundred images but it might seriously bog-down or spit-out garbage if you tried to implement it for ten thousand, never mind ten million.

Image processing is full of things that sort-of work, that are impressive but not fully reliable.

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

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If this could be extended to movies, the possibilities would be awesome. Just write a script for a movie, sketch out the different scenes and voila, a ready made rough of your new romantic comedy! The program could be extended further to recycle old movies, and to replace the actors heads with new one. I have to start writing a business plan for this right away. Please send me a message if you want to join in on this…

In all seriousness, that's part of why I find it so interesting. The software works (I use the term loosely!) on downloaded images, ie it doesn't yet include a web client that does an image search for you.

So for movie purposes, you could save a lot of time using a (more polished) version of this to prepare your storyboards - shoot pictures of your selected or desirable actors, background plates that look like your desired locations, and major props. Draw stupid sketches and voila, you have rough photoboards. In conjunction with some other imaging technologies, it has massive possibilities. There's a saying that a film (especially a low budget one) lives or dies in pre-production; the more decisions you can make before you begin shooting, the less expensive the production process is and the more predictable and cheaper your post-production will be. Sure, quite a lot of Great Art happens on the spur of the moment, but serendipity is rare while dithering is common, and expensive. Adobe, for one, is pushing strongly to bring the use of their tools forward in the production process, so that the film is sketched out before shooting takes place and directors can spend more of their time 'filling in the blanks'.

What you mention (going from this to an actual movie) is obviously not practical now, but I'm happy to say that it's being reduced to an engineering problem - the fundamental technology to do most of what you describe already exists, and it's a matter of making it usable and timely. I will venture a guess that we'll be able to do this in clunky/very expensive form by 2015, and by 2020 it will be possible to make an entire feature film this way that looks about as good as a mid-90s low-budget sci-fi film - say, Escape from LA - at home.

tl;dr although this has been presented as an entertaining toy, with thematically-organized material there's a lot of near-term commercial potential.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I think he got his karma back now. But yeah, the way some people downvote gives me a funny feeling.

I'm tired of meta-comments. I'd rather discuss the link. I down vote all meta-comments.

Don’t you now have to down vote yourself?

It’s ironic :)

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

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If this could be extended to movies, the possibilities would be awesome. Just write a script for a movie, sketch out the different scenes and voila, a ready made rough of your new romantic comedy! The program could be extended further to recycle old movies, and to replace the actors heads with new one. I have to start writing a business plan for this right away. Please send me a message if you want to join in on this…

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Yeah. I'm so in.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I think he got his karma back now. But yeah, the way some people downvote gives me a funny feeling.

I'm tired of meta-comments. I'd rather discuss the link. I down vote all meta-comments.

You can downvote our subsequent comments but his original was about the paper that belongs to the article :-)

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

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Hey, this is the technology from Wag The Dog. De Niros character is a Hollywood producer, hired to produce a fake war in Albania to distract from a sex scandal before an election. At one point, he's directing news footage by shouting something like "there's a girl in front of a village, it's on fire .. hmm, no, more smoke.. her hair is too light. Can she have a cat? Show me cats" while having a technician type in the…

I work in the VFX industry, and can confirm this is how we have been doing things for years.

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

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Hey, this is the technology from Wag The Dog. De Niros character is a Hollywood producer, hired to produce a fake war in Albania to distract from a sex scandal before an election. At one point, he's directing news footage by shouting something like "there's a girl in front of a village, it's on fire .. hmm, no, more smoke.. her hair is too light. Can she have a cat? Show me cats" while having a technician type in the…

Ha, true. FWIW, though, the character you're describing is played by Dustin Hoffman. Awesome movie, though.

Yeah, you're right. I think the quotes page on IMDB has the names backwards, or I'm really in need of re-watching that film.
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