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TouchRemove — Remove unwanted objects from your pictures
TouchRemove is an Android app to quickly remove annoying objects from your photos. Mask and remove annoying powerlines, tourists, objects etc. easily.
The algorithm (content-aware fill) automatically fills and paints the masked area.
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Some more details for the technical minded people:
The used algorithm is based on PatchMatch, one of the best known in-painting-algorithms (a variant of it is also used in Photoshop). I implemented the algorithm in Renderscript, which gives a massive speed boost over plain Java. Contact me if you have any questions.
Erasing a background is useful. But extracting cutouts from images is even more useful.
Could you use your algorithm to parse an image into layers?
Just downloaded on my Android - tried to load your example and getting an error message @r_follador
@krishnade Thanks for giving it a try! There were some problems regarding the permission of third-party gallery apps. Should be fixed now, can you update?
@krishnade Awesome, good to hear! Let me know what you think about the app; points of improvement etc.
@r_follador From my initial tests it was really fast and intuitive - I need to check out your tutorial. One thing I could not work out is where I see 'open recent projects' will it hold past edits on the phone in the app as I could not see how to delete?
@krishnade It will only hold the last edit, in case you close it. There's no way yet to save multiple edits.
Tried this app with a photo and it didn't work at all, it left a mess where the object was. Tried a free alternative on the same photo and it worked to perfection. Uninstalled this one immediately.
Pros:None really.
Cons:Didn't work.
Thank you for your review. I'm thinking about including a zoom insert while painting to allow for finer handling.
Might help to consult an app designer, but it works impressively.
Pros:It works
Cons:Could use a style guide