Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs

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Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, 2011 @06:19PM from the improve-on-reality dept.

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.

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Re: by NFN_NLN · 2011-10-23 19:04 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:Too real by adolf · 2011-10-23 19:08 · Score: 5, Informative

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.)

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Re: by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-23 20:04 · Score: 5, Funny

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.