Thursday, November 01, 2007

Microsoft Research Group Shot

Just started testing out a cool photo tool: Microsoft Research Group Shot

Group Shot creates a composite image from a series of photos. The photos must be of the same scene, taken from the same point of view within a short period of time. The application uses regions that you indicate to build a composite image automatically.

Here is an example that I just did: two shots, of course I can't ever get all 3 of them to look at the camera at the same time... :-)



After mucking around with Group Shot, and choosing the right sections from each picture, this is what it came out with:

Not bad! I'll have to look through older group shots and see if any of them can be improved.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey, pretty good. Looks like you took Sarah's 'face' off the top left, and merged it with the group pix on the top right. What gave it away was the 'neck line' of Sarah --- kinda shows two little images.

Dad

JimC said...

Ya, I know - it wasn't perfect. But based on the fact that it did it totally automatically was pretty good. And really, there was too much change between the 2 images for it to be perfect. The docs really say that the images have to be almost identical - maybe just eyes closed or mouth open... something like that.