PrettyCity

AI that replaces cranes in cityscapes

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The way the application works on the surface is quite straightforward. Then the algorithm looks for cranes and detects every single pixel of the object. Finally, another algorithm – similar to the ones used in photo editors like Photoshop – replaces those pixels with new ones. Eventually the user gets a beautiful picture without unwanted cranes.
PrettyCity gallery image
PrettyCity gallery image
PrettyCity gallery image
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Abadesi
Any plans to train the algos to detect and replace other objects in photos? @ishoottheworld @hello_roman @szopa
Ric Szopa
Maker
@ishoottheworld @hello_roman @abadesi Yes, we are thinking about it. What sort of other objects would you like to remove from your photos?
Abadesi
@ishoottheworld @hello_roman @szopa It would be cool to take the grey clouds out of gloomy British skies, replace with nice blue skies ☀️
Ric Szopa
Maker
@ishoottheworld @hello_roman @abadesi haha, I like the idea :) Even if it's slightly more involved than what I had in mind – removing clouds would be easy, but you also have to remove the gloom :) Objects we were considering to remove next are people and pigeons.
Dan Dan
It's crazy that this is a real need. But since I live in a big city with cranes everywhere I thought I would try it. I tried this image , but it failed to find a crane. I guess the image quality is not good enough but I thought the crane was pretty visible. To be fair I tried using other images where the crane was up close and it did a pretty good job at removing it and matching the background.
Ric Szopa
Maker
@tostartafire I am afraid your crane is too small for the network to see it (especially that we have to downscale the image before we passing it to the network).
Marcin Bodych
@tostartafire In terms of problems with small cranes I recommend to cut the interesting part of the picture (the part which contains cranes) and pass just it to the prettycitty app engine - please check result on the cropped image: https://imgur.com/FnKtuAl
Sahil
Tried a few times... didn't do anything... after the fun "loading" messages... it just goes back to "upload picture"... will try again when it works though!
Olek Cieślak
@schoujar it should be fully functional now
Ric Szopa
Maker
@schoujar @olek_cieslak Yeah, we had a bit of a scaling hiccup, sorry about it :)