PracticalSOA

An absolutely stunning example of hi-tech ingenuity:

“…a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet.”

Think about it - the software allows you to create a montage (i.e. a “visual composite”) by simply tagging the various elements of a freehand sketch!

You can read the abstract and get more details on this amazing piece of technology. (Link via Metafilter)

Now, why isn’t enterprise IT this easy?