NIFarious Ideas: Sketch2Photo

This weeks NIFarious Ideas features is Sketch2Photo, an internet montage composer and is truly remarkable. The researcher team out of Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, has developed a system that generates a realistic digital pictures from basic, freehand sketchs annotated with text labels. The illustration below give the best example.



You can see the handrawn sketch on the left. From this sketch, their system scans the internet for potential candidate images, optimizes the best combination and creates a digital picture!

The ability to draw a situation freehand and have it converted into a realistic looking digital image within a few seconds? That's Dangerous!....and for that we thank you Sketch2Photo.

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NIFarious Ideas is a regular weekly column on the NIF Blog that appears every Friday. We seek to highlight the avant-garde, the dangerous, the progressive, the cutting edge in software tools, databasing, ontologies, searching, data collecting and distributing, and of course, neuroscience trends. Join us each Friday — Be NIFarious!