18. The method of claim 13 , further comprising: using the synthesized image to find an image in a set of images that is similar to the concept-structured layout.
13. A method for synthesizing a new image, comprising: displaying on a display a window for entering a concept-structured query in the form of a concept-structured layout of an image to be synthesized from a set of images; receiving a concept-structured layout via a window by placing one or more image concepts in locations on the window using a user interface data entry device; using the input concept-structured layout to find a group of representative images in the image set for each concept in each location in the window; determining the best representative image from each group of representative images; finding the image center for each best representative image; aligning each located image center with the location of a corresponding concept in the window; and seamlessly stitching the aligned best representative images to output a synthesized image on the display.