Tuesday, February 12, 2013

PixelTone: A Futuristic Image Editor That Lets You ‘Shop Photos Using Your Voice


This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel




Michael Zhang · Feb 12, 2013


Talking to computers is one of the exciting new trends that’s emerging in the tech world, and in the future we may find ourselves casually talking to our gadgets as we go about our lives. One application of this that you may never have considered is photo editing: what if you could post-process your photographs simply by telling an image editor what you would like done to the images?

That’s exactly what scientists are currently working on, and the research is further along than you might think. They’re already playing around with a prototype version of an app — one called PixelTone.The research team is a collaboration of people from Adobe Research and the University of Michigan. They called PixelTone “A Multimodal Interface for Image Editing.”

Here’s an amazing demonstration video introducing the app and showing what may soon be possible in the world of photo editing:


The app is geared toward making photo editing as hands free as possible. Aside from single gestures in order to tell the computer what you’re referring to or to teach it new things, everything is done through voice commands.

Basic ones include minor adjustments (e. …



By: Michael Zhang


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