Perks Of Using Jetstream Editor

Jetstream Image Editor is the brainchild of Microsoft researcher Andrew Blake and colleagues Patrick Perez and Michael Gagnet. The program is supposed to automate some of the complex processes that professional graphic artists use by combining these processes into a handful of tools that will let users create and apply these touches with a single click.

Their untiring efforts has led to the development of a program that is intuitive enough to let you select and cut out parts of pictures seamlessly by its pixel recognition sensitivity that associates similar pixels together. Everyone that has tried to use a photo editing software to cut out and images knows how difficult it is to trace and cut out images from a picture. The software is able to accurately follow the contours of the image, with minimal to little input from the user.
It is a great tool for removing images from a background. The program works by looking at the picture that is loaded into it,  creating a table of the different pixels of the background and of the objects in the picture and then creating a table where it records each pixel found, where it is found and the mixtures that occur in the image and where they are found. Once you try to cut out an object, the program just doesn’t let you cut it out on your own, which of course can be complex, imagine cutting out a person from the in the water to remove the person from the background of a beach photo.

What the program tries to do is to compare the pixels in the region you have marked out to other pixels in an attempt to identify similar pixels, going ahead separating the common pixels to those that are different, and in effect perfectly surrounding the object you are interested in.

In addition to being able to select the colors, the Jetstream image editor doesn’t just leave you with a cut out hole in the picture that you have to try to correctly fill to make the background smooth, even though this is what professional graphic artists accomplish in their daily work. The program uses a system that is known as Markov matting to correctly model the color of the background. The program uses the Markov random field to map the colors, the frequencies, how they sit next to each other, and their tonal change such that when the image you are cutting out is finally removed, you are able to cover the background with an exact likeness taken from the other regions of the background that has been sampled.

While this program has automated several advanced image editing techniques into a few mouse clicks, it is still a work in progress and the researchers are forever looking for ways to make it better. While the work still goes on, Jetstream image editor can already be downloaded and used, and of course it is safe to assume that one day the work will be able to feature in Future Microsoft Product releases.