Group Shot

Microsoft Group Shot
Developer(s)	Microsoft Research

Stable release	1.03 / 20 September 2006
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Digital photo organizer
License	Proprietary
Website

Group Shot is a photo combining program developed by Microsoft Research. Its purpose is to solve the problem of individuals in group photographs that might be doing undesirable things such as looking elsewhere, closing their eyes, not smiling, etc. The principle of Group Shot is that multiple group photographs will be taken in each session. Multiple images from a session are loaded into the application, and then the user selects the best parts from all of the different photos and merges them into one.

It was announced at Bill Gates' keynote at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show. For a time, the software was available to download for Windows XP users,^[1] however it was later removed from the Microsoft Research website and the project was officially closed. Microsoft Research stated that the beta period has expired.^[2]

The Group Shot engine was eventually included in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4 under the name of Photo Fuse.^[3]

A similar feature is available in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 under the name 'Photomerge Group Shot'.^[4] Essentially the same functionality is also available in Adobe Photoshop CS3's Photomerge, though not packaged as a separate feature. It is available as well in the open-source application Hugin and the Samsung Galaxy Camera.

On January 2012, a GroupShot mobile app was released by Macadamia Apps allowing users to create a group image from multiple similar images, on their mobile phone. The app is available for download in the iTunes App Store. Company says the app will be available for other platforms later this year.

References

External links

Microsoft Research (MSR)

Main projects

Languages and compilers	Polyphonic C# Cω Spec# Sing# Bartok Phoenix TouchDevelop

Distributed/ grid computing	Bigtop Gridline BitVault

Internet and networking	Avalanche Wallop Conference XP HoneyMonkey AjaxView Gazelle

Other projects	Cognitive Toolkit IllumiRoom MyLifeBits LiveStation Terminator WorldWide Telescope PhotoDNA

Operating systems	Singularity Barrelfish Midori Verve

APIs	Joins Accelerator Dryad SXM

Xbox and Related	Xbox Kinect

Launched as products	C# Comic Chat F# Sideshow PixelSense (TouchLight) SenseCam ClearType Group Shot Allegiance Songsmith

Applied research
from MSR Labs

Live Labs

Current	Photosynth Pivot Seadragon Deep Zoom DeepZoomPix

Discontinued	Deepfish Listas Volta Live Clipboard

FUSE Labs

Other Microsoft Research Labs

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