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Erasing Objects From Video In Real Time

Posted by timothy on from the no-more-wires-visible dept.

Smoothly interpolating away objects in still pictures is impressive enough, but reader geoffbrecker writes with a stunning demonstration from Germany's Technical University of Ilmenau of on-the-fly erasure of selected objects in video. Quoting: "The effect is achieved by an image synthesizer that reduces the image quality, removes the object, and then increases the image quality back up. This all happens within 40 milliseconds, fast enough that the viewer doesn't notice any delay."

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  1. Cool, but probably still has a ways to go. by suso · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pretty good, but take note that all the examples where objects sitting on pretty flat colored backgrounds. I'd like to see what happens when you try to remove an object in a complex environment. Like removing a single person standing in a crowd.

  2. Journalistic Integrity by Defenestrar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Great - it'll start off by making eyesore real estate disappear from "live coverage," then be required as a precondition for live celebrity interviews (not just makeup to cover that acne), moving on to inconvenient points to the story that would take too much time and effort to explain, then images which might "disturb the children" (number of student bodies in Tienanmen Square?), and finally develop to ubiquitous studio-in-a-cameras such that we'll have little assurance of whether live coverage is fact or fiction.

    Of course that's just pessimism speaking. Really I'm looking forward to watching live reports without those obnoxious people waving at their mothers, or holding up witty slogans about taxation.

  3. Re:I thought what I'd do is... by mister_playboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That phrase was familiar to me, but I wasn't sure where I had seen it... now I remember:

    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shell)

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    Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law ::: Love is the law, love under will
  4. Re:Perfect Application by John+Hasler · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A simpler version of this has already been used to edit billboards visible in broadcasts of baseball games.

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    Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
  5. Re:Perfect Application by sjames · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or stripping out the thousands of peaceful middle aged protesters and the hundreds of uninvolved pedestrians being tear gassed to show only the one or two violent people who actually have nothing to do with the protest.

    Next up, witnesses will disappear from police video to discredit them in court.