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Video Inpainting Software Deletes People From HD Video Footage

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-outta-here dept.

cylonlover writes "In a development sure to send conspiracy theorists into a tizzy, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) have developed video inpainting software that can effectively delete people or objects from high-definition footage. The software analyzes each video frame and calculates what pixels should replace a moving area that has been marked for removal. In a world first, the software can compensate for multiple people overlapped by the unwanted element, even if they are walking towards (or away from) the camera."

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  1. Reflections by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I liked the fact that you could still see the pedestrians in the reflections of the display window in the video of the musicians, even though they had been erased from the front end. Like the vampire test, but the other way around.

  2. Re:What's next? by docmordin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What you proposed isn't that far-fetched, as I ended up having to contrive and implement the equivalent of this, i.e., passive, automated estimation of body shape under clothing, either from a single image or from multiple video frames, for some work I did in action recognition that required a fairly accurate representation of the person's proportions. Others, e.g., A. O. Balan and M. J. Black, "The naked truth: Estimating body shape under clothing," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008, pp. 15–29, have come up with solutions too.

  3. The Laughing Man by SpectreBlofeld · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anyone reminded of the Laughing Man from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?

    A hacker who was able to hack the cybernetic vision of others in real-time to make himself invisible...