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Using Photographs To Enhance Videos
seussman71 writes with a link to some very interesting research out of the University of Washington that employs "a method of using high quality photographs to enhance a video taken of the same subject. The project page gives a good overview of what they are doing and the video on the page gives some really nice examples of how their technology works. Hopefully someone can take the technology and run with it, but one thing's for sure: this could make amateur video-making look even better than it does now." And if adding mustaches would improve your opinion of the people in amateur videos, check out the unwrap-mosaics technique from Microsoft Research.
The publication is supposed to contain enough information to recreate the results.
Question 4 on the SIGGRAPH review form -
"4. Could the work be reproduced by one or more skilled graduate students? Are all important algorithmic or system details discussed adequately? Are the limitations and drawbacks of the work clear?"
If you or a company wants it bad enough, the information is there, unless the review process failed (which does happen).
This wasn't a SIGGRAPH paper but the ability to reproduce results is none-the-less a standard prerequisite for academic publication.
It's certainly not as convenient as releasing source code, but that's sometimes a big challenge for an academic researcher because the last thing they want is to have to support buggy, poorly documented research code for random people on the internet.
That would greatly lower the cost of doing special effects, if you didn't have to do them frame by frame.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
Takeo Kanade's lab at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute did this in the mid 90's...
E pluribus unum
like the way they "stereoscopically" create a depth-map from a _single_ still photograph
TFV said they were using video frames to do stereoscopic depth-mapping. Since the source footage changed perspective, they can build a depth map based on the relative shift of each object in the video, and then project the high-quality photograph on top of the derived 3D structure