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AI taught to instantly transform objects in image-editing software

By Donna Lu

16 April 2020

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AI offers new photo-editing options

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Artificially intelligent algorithms that create images are notoriously difficult to predict and control. But now researchers at Adobe have devised AI-controlled software that lets you transform the shape of objects in images, and adjust the lighting and perspective, with a few simple controls.

Given, say, a photograph of a car, you can use a combination of several control sliders in the program to adjust different components, including its shape and style, background, lighting conditions and colour. Dragging a slider can instantly change a convertible into a hatchback, for example.

The program also works…

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