PhotoSketch is an impressive image montage maker

PhotoSketch is an impressive image montage maker

A group of Chinese students have developed a new product named PhotoSketch.

PhotoSketch is a very high quality image montage maker. The technology behind this product is pretty awesome.

You just start by drawing a rough sketch of what you are looking for.

PhotoSketch then searches for images from the web matching that sketch and makes a sketch for you.

You can refine the search result images to pick the best images for your own montage.

The developers had this to say about their product:

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images. We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies.

Here is a video presentation showcasing the power of PhotoSketch: