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Using Photographs To Enhance Videos

Posted by timothy on from the ready-for-my-closeup dept.

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.

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  1. Is anyone else sick of demos? by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is UW not releasing their source code? If they intend to spin off commercial products, why are they releasing demos? Hell, even *Microsoft* is releasing demos of this stuff.. is Apple and Google the only companies that can ship product these days (even if it is "beta" you can at least freakin' use it).

    No more demos. We know you're smart, now make something useful please.

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    1. Re:Is anyone else sick of demos? by imsabbel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Simple reason:
      They _say_ that it does this automatically.

      Translation: We put some phd student on it who spend some months optimizing the settings for the 2 selected scenes so we can make a nice publication and maybe get more money.

      If you just look at their steps of the workflow, the way they discribe it just isnt possible (like the way they "stereoscopically" create a depth-map from a _single_ still photograph..).
      Not to mention that the first scene looks like a bad video game level after their "improvement".

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  2. Patent Encumbered? by reality-bytes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always get this feeling when I see a university-styled promotional release that the *software* patents are already pending.

    I haven't the time to search just now but I'll bet there's at least one application pertaining to this method which encompasses a hell of a lot more.

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  3. Find Video Frame - Apply by KalvinB · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The easy way would be to use the already calculated depth field from the frame in the video that best matches the photo.

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