Amazing Digital Video Research
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.
Interactive Video Cutout from pro on Vimeo.
GradientShop: A novel approach to image and video processing from pro on Vimeo.
The University of Washington is known for creating and contributing to some really interesting computer technology projects, but these above really show alot of amazing potential for what computers can do with digital footage to enhance it in new and powerful ways.
Really amazing stuff, can't wait until these ideas are adapted into some After Effects Plug-ins.
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Some one has been reading videocopilot....
Saw this idea on videocopilot (see lightsaber episode) looks really good as many people may habe low quality camcorder but high quality stills cam, good finding!
They look very cool. I particularly enjoyed the object removal idea, that would be awesome.
Wow, the very first thing, mapping the images into footage is exteremly impressive. I wonder how it similar the photos have to be to the original camera pass to make it work convincingly?
Well they said because it's unoptimized bare bones software that the render times are currently something like 5 minutes a frame. But they said that if it were optimized it would be much much much faster.
Very interesting and a lot of potential there, but I'm curious about the rendering time needed and the hardware specs for this software.
I really like the fake steadicam in the last video.