The world of imagery is all set to change even further.
A team of researchers from MIT and IBM has developed “GANpaint Studio,” a software that can automatically generate realistic photographic images and edit objects inside them. Besides helping artists and designers make adjustments to images, the system may also help computer scientists identify “fake” images.
According to a report on the MIT blog, the interactive demo GANpaint Studio allows a user to upload an image of their choosing and modify multiple aspects of its appearance, from changing the size of objects to adding completely new items like trees and buildings.
Led by MIT professor Antonio Torralba as part of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab which he directs, the project can be used for many things: designers and artists could use it to make quicker tweaks to their visuals. Adapting the system to video clips would enable computer-graphics editors to quickly compose specific arrangements of objects needed for a particular shot. (Imagine, for example, if a director filmed a full scene with actors but forgot to include an object in the background that’s important to the plot.)
Bau, Strobelt, Torralba and Zhu co-wrote the paper with former CSAIL PhD student Bolei Zhou, postdoctoral associate Jonas Wulff, and undergraduate student William Peebles. They will present it next month at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles.
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