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"A picture," so the old saw goes, "is worth a thousand words." That may well be so, but if researchers at the University of Michigan and Adobe Research get their way, a few sentences could soon be sufficient to make that picture just a little bit more worthy. Their creation, a prototypical, voice-activated image editor called PixelTone, lets...
Early last week, stories began to circulate the web of a development that some claimed would spell the end of bulky lenses for everything from camera phones to digital SLRs, while simultaneously and radically improving image quality. Press outlets around the world worked to outdo each other with ever-more exuberant interpretations of its impact. The resulting coverage offers a...
In the early 1970s, British author Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". A research paper and accompanying video mentioned on the blog of John Nack, Principal Product Manager, Mobile at Adobe Systems seems to us to fit the bill.
In the paper, six researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial...
