How to Get Me to Part with My Cash

Alex Internet

Make something that, even to me, looks a heck of a lot like magic:

I won’t say that I’m exactly eager to plop down the amount of money that Photoshop CS5 will cost . . . but wow.

(Found via John Nack’s blog.)

6 Responses to “How to Get Me to Part with My Cash

  • 1
    monkey
    March 25th, 2010

    Image inpainting, probably using learned libraries. It’s been really fun to watch this go from short, pie-in-the-sky, talks at technical conferences to pretty darn automatic software products. Yay math.

    Guillermo Sapiro at the UofMN has done a lot of this sort of thing.

  • 2
    wadE
    March 25th, 2010

    I *think* I can get $100 off b/c I own a previous version of Photoshop. That’s better than nothing… right?

  • 3
    alex
    March 26th, 2010

    I can get education pricing – and that’s *still* a bit more than I’d like to pay.

  • 4
    monkey
    April 2nd, 2010

    Uh, spam.

  • 5
    wadE
    April 5th, 2010

    Yeah, I don’t know how that spam comment got in there. We’ve had a few show up lately after having none for several months after we implemented Captcha.

  • 6
    monkey
    April 7th, 2010

    Meh, spam happens.

    Went to a talk the other day given by one of the guys from Adobe who developed this. Turns out it’s not learned libraries and that’s precisely why it’s so fast. No need to build up a database — it’s a mixture of random sampling and deterministic image patch matching. Very cool stuff.

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