Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Unless otherwise indicated herein, the materials described in this section are not prior art to the claims in this application and are not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section. “Images can represent aspects of a scene that a system may automatically remove or that may be remove based on manual selections of a user of a client device. F or example, one or more aspects of the scene may distract a viewer of the image from an intended subject of the image (e.g., a person or piece of artwork). The system may remove these aspects of the environment from the image, leaving blank areas to be inpainted.