PhotoSketch: Photoshop + Image Recognition = Awesome

This technology is just mind-boggling.

PhotoSketch may be the coolest program we’ve seen or written about since the invisible speakers .

PhotoSketch is an “Internet Image Montage” project from five Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore.

The basic premise, which they present in the form of a research paper [pdf], works like this:

Step 1.

Draw the outlines of the figures you...