Sketch2Photo: internet image montage

  • Authors:
  • Tao Chen;Ming-Ming Cheng;Ping Tan;Ariel Shamir;Shi-Min Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University;Tsinghua University;National University of Singapore;The Interdisciplinary Center;Tsinghua University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

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.