What can you do with millions of images? Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) think you can use web images to add realism to your photos. For example, the goal of one of their projects, named ‘Photo Clip Art,’ is to insert new objects into existing photographs by querying a vast image-based object library. Another one, called ‘Scene Completion,’ wants to help you to fill ‘holes’ in your pictures by selecting the right pictures in the Flickr database to enhance them. These two projects will be presented at the next SIGGRAPH next month in San Diego.

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