Looks extremely cool, if it works. From Andrew Mager (ZDNet):
What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage?
Well, it’s possible.
A group of students in China have created [Sketch2Photo], a project that does exactly what I just described: it takes a rough, hand-drawn sketch, scours the web for photos that match, and runs them through an algorithm, stitching it all together.
Here’s their video on this:
Thanks to my friend and computer science professor Haym Hirsh for the pointer.