Photosketch, created by Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, and Shi-Min Hu at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore.

In simplistic terms, here’s how it works.  A user draws a sketch and gives a label to each object in it (ie. bike, birds, boat).  Then, the sketch is transformed into an actual picture with real object by “seamlessly stiching a background and several foreground items from photographs retrieved from the Internet in accordance with the sketch and text labels.”

Watch the video above to see the magic unfold, then check out samples in the gallery below.

[Via Gizmodo]