Microsoft Research unveiled AutoCollage 2008

[kattman]

Microsoft Research unveiled software AutoCollage 2008, which allows you to automatically create a harmonious peeling-mell from a series of photos, just like what can be done manually with the recent beta Picasa 3.

This application is the work of researchers at the University of Cambridge (UK) have developed a technology that allows, after analyzing a lot of image, select the most representative photographs, mixed together harmonious (ensuring that the assembly is not dominated by a single photo or that the faces are not cut off) and assemble them so that the edges are not visible. In a few seconds, the software analyzes a maximum of 25 pictures and created the collage conducting retouching and melted. The result is intended to be drawn on paper, to be used to screen or to be sent by e-mail, depending on options selected.

Microsoft, this definitely very recently in the field of research and development on the segment of the image, met here the scope of neophytes process once manual and tedious. Although the software is still perfectible, the technology is promising, gives good results when the pictures are well chosen and all is part of a process which should enable term, in combination with other innovations researchers, completely change the way we understand the digital creation. AutoCollage 2008 is paid (20 euros), but a trial version allows to fully utilize the software for 30 days in exchange for a watermark on images exported.

[spookshow]

For 20 €, it is difficult to expect wonders. The approach is interesting but it is far from mounting a real done with this good ones like Photoshop or Gimp, which for the latter, is free.