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| Microsoft Research Makes It Easier to Create Digital Photo Collages Microsoft Research launches AutoCollage 2008, a desktop application that allows users to easily compile a set of individual photographs into one seamless collage. Available to trial from the Microsoft Research download site AutoCollage is an advanced computer vision and image processing program that assembles pictures into a seamless collage using methods such as object recognition and face detection. Having automatically identified interesting parts of pictures, AutoCollage combines the separate pictures into a composite collage by deliberately following natural features as a boundary between images. There are three main criteria that AutoCollage considers to ensure that it chooses the best images to feature in the collages it creates: - Choosing images that are most representative of the overall theme (eg. avoiding duplications, choosing people or groups of people); - Laying out the images in an interesting way (eg. without one image overly dominating the collage, ensuring important parts of the photo are visible); - Blending the images together so the joins aren't visible. AutoCollage runs on Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 and above, and is available worldwide through a 30-day free trial. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |