Researchers Develop ‘Content Aware Fill’ for 3D Photographs
For many user who use Adobe's Photoshop software, the "Content Aware Fill" tool has been a welcome addition in their arsenals of retouching tools. And while the vast majority of Photoshop users are editing 2D imagery, a partnership between Adobe and Brigham Young University has produced algorithms that'll do with 3D images what Content Aware Fill does with 2D images.
BYU grad student Joel Howard and professor Bryan Morse worked with Adobe's Scott Cohen and Brian Price to make the algorithm a reality. Adobe also provided funding for the project.
3D pictures are a pair of images of the same subject taken from slightly different angles. It is extremely difficult to edit them in a manner that won't be distracting in the final version. "If you try to show it stereoscopically and it’s not quite right, it’s very bothersome to the eyes," says Bryan Morse. "You have to fill the space in a way that preserves the left-right consistency."
