Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs

First time accepted submitter IDarkISwordI writes "A new abstract headed to SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 provides a method for rapid execution of computer graphics, synthesized into photographs with accurate lighting and physics based on limited input from a user and interpretation by their code." The results are impressive; hard to watch the video demo (on linked page) without boggling.

Comments

Virtual house dressing

[Animats]

This is going to be very useful for real estate sales. No need to move furniture into an empty house for the pictures.

Too real

[Wolfling1]

Well, that pretty well wraps it up for anyone trying to prove anything supernatural or extra-terrestrial on earth. Who would ever believe any video evidence now?

Re:Too real

[adolf]

True, this is much more advanced technology and seems to be amazingly effective, but a good photoshop editor has been able to fool the public for quite a long time now.

The best part about this tech is that it does not require a "good" photoshop editor to sort out the light paths and shadows/reflections/etc manually, but just a person willing to graphically describe the scene using a GUI. After that, arbitrary 3D objects can be more-or-less added arbitrarily with uncanny realism.

This includes, perhaps unfortunately, realtors.

(And to the English Nazi(s) reading this: "graphically" and "GUI" are not redundant terms in this context.)

Re:Those photo's look....

[qxcv]

Obligatory XKCD

Re:

[NFN_NLN]

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any software available for download, only the research paper.

The release is delayed because the software is limited to only a few useful objects at the moment: Buddha Statue, Dragon Statue, Pool Table and Dead Hooker.
 

I think we already got there.

[YesIAmAScript]

http://s418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Ironic-Mike/?action=view&current=X-WingonAircraftCarrier.jpg

This line is padding.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any software available for download, only the research paper.

The release is delayed because the software is limited to only a few useful objects at the moment: Buddha Statue, Dragon Statue, Pool Table and Dead Hooker.

But I need software that can *remove* dead hookers from photos! That's the problem with academia, totally disconnected with the needs of the real world.

Why are we trying to baffle future generations?

[damburger]

So, peak oil arrives, there is a superflu pandemic, 99942 Apophis impacts and blocks out the Sun, etc. etc. we all die.

...then, centuries later, technological civilisation reemerges, and starts analysing data storage devices they dig up. Most of them are unreadable, but they do get fragments of data with which they can start to piece together what happened before The Event.

And what do they find? Pictures of people listening to iPods at the Battle of Stalingrad and Asimo raising the flag at Iwo Jima.