Today, it is not uncommon for editors of photos to resize objects, as well as move them up, down or sideways. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California have now added an extra dimension to photo editing by enabling editors to flip or turn objects in any way they want, and even to expose surfaces that are invisible in the original photo. And all this can freely be done using the available stock 3D models of everyday objects.

This new technology, for instance, allows you to turn a table in a photo of a kitchen around or even upside down. This way, you get to display sections of the table that would have been hidden from the camera, yet appear to be realistic. In the real world, we handle objects by turning, lifting or knocking them around. This new technology is designed to create an environment that allows editors of photos to enjoy this exact same freedom, when it comes to photo editing. The main goal of the team of researchers is to stop limiting editorial capabilities to simply editing ‘what we see’ in the photo, but instead to manipulate ‘what we know’ concerning the scene behind the photo.

Source:3ders.org

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