Thursday, August 16, 2007

Borrowing from Big Brother

Have a pic you really wish was better - maybe without an ex or perhaps that car obscuring a vital piece of sceneny? The good news is that help will soon be on hand - thanks to a new digital photo tool from the UK. As best I can understand, the tool is an algorithm which will analyse your photo, then go and check against online photo libraries such as Flickr to find similar images.  It will then piece together the "best fit" from 20 of the images it finds, to match the lighting, camera position and composition etc of your image, and then create a better composite.  Tests suggest that even in its preliminary stages, 30% of the improved photos couldn't be detected.  Move over Big Brother.

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