A new software tool from Microsoft Research lets people cut objects out of pictures and keep furry edges fuzzy.
Researchers at Microsoft have found a way to help photo editors cut a furry object out of a picture and keep its fuzz. As anyone who has used an editing tool like Photoshop knows, it's impossible to easily and accurately cut around stray hairs or other soft edges. But Michael Cohen and his team at Microsoft Research have developed a tool, called Soft Scissors, that accounts for the basic shape of an object, such as a dog, as well as the shape of fur and stray hairs.
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