Data Cleaning and the Art of Tourist Removal
There is something magnificently nifty and creepy about this article on removing tourists from your photos:Every notable landmark seems to have one thing in common: visitors, and lots of them. But if you want that postcard shot or that image that shows how the location may have once appeared, you have a challenge ahead of you. This digital photography and PhotoShop tutorial will provide a means to remove the tourist throngs from your vacation images.Taking it up a level, what is happening here is that tourists are just another kind of outlier digital data in a digital database, otherwise known as a photo. Like cleaning spurious data from traditional data sets, which has gone on forever, related ad hoc techniques are now appearing in the consumer imaging world. Fascinating. 1
