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Content-Aware Fill
Dan B Goldman| Adobe Systems
Eli Shechtman| Adobe Systems
Connelly Barnes| Adobe Systems
Ivan Cavero Belaunde| Adobe Systems
Jeff Chien| Adobe Systems
Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware Spot Healing are new features in Photoshop CS5 that dramatically simplify the process of removing objects from an image or even expanding the boundaries of a cropped image. The hole filling method is based on Space-Time Video Completion that was developed externally at the Weizmann Institute. The speed of Content-Aware Fill comes from a new image search algorithm called PatchMatch that runs 20-100x faster than previous approaches. PatchMatch was developed as a joint research project with Princeton University. This technology is now also part of Photoshop Elements 9. In Photoshop CS6 we did some quality improvements as well as removed memory limitations for filling large images (e.g. panorama boundaries).
Content-Aware Fill was awarded a Technical Excellence Award for 2010 by the PC Magazine!
Here are some links to press and videos about this feature:
- Bryan O'Neill Hughes sneak peek (~5 million views and counting!)
- "Photoshop's Upcoming Content-Aware Fill Feature Looks Like Magic" - gizmodo.com
- "Adobe Demos Amazing 'Content-Aware Fill' in Photoshop" – pcmag.com
- "Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill is Magical" – popsci.com
- "Adobe's Magical 'Content Aware Fill' Bends Pixels to Your Will" - webmonkey.com
- "Content-Aware Fill is Magically Automatic" - fastcompany.com
- More: Wired, Reddit, SlashDot
Related features: Content-Aware Move and Patch tools in Photoshop CS6
Publications |
PatchMatch: A randomized correspondence algorithm for structural image editing
Barnes, C., Shechtman, E., Finkelstein, A., and Goldman, D. B.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 28(3), 2009.
Space-time completion of video
Wexler, Y., Shechtman, E., and Irani, M.
In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
