Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene (video)

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51 points·joshwa··10 comments

That's just crazy cool. It doesn't look like its going to be long before we should doubt the authenticity of video as much as we do photographs now. File this one under "Ministry of Truth"!

How is an honest mime supposed to compete against a guy who really is trapped in a box but then edits the box out later?

the difference between researchers and entrepreneurs

"the details on how to implement the software/algorithms have been published in an EGSR paper which is available from the project website. Ideally, a product team like Adobe would carry the torch from here on and create a professional quality implementation of the ideas presented in this work."

I sincerely hope they do another demonstration of the HDR enhancement to simulate images like this - just in video

http://flickr.com/photos/kuwaiti_muwali/479096944/ http://flickr.com/photos/mapgoblin/142350388/ http://flickr.com/photos/uncommon/489820147/

I'm still very impressed - but I would love to see if they could do it :)

I wonder how much significance it is that one of the co-authors appears to work at Adobe, but you do make a good point. The money is in the implementation and all that.

Wow, this is really cool, but I was under the impression that this is already doable. Why is everyone so surprised?

Because it was the domain of studios with big budgets beforehand?

Now it appears to be within the realm of backyard hobbyists - thats what makes it impressive.

It also appears to be mostly automated in this.

Because the merely "doable" is becoming "trivially easy".

Cool! Was this presented at siggraph? Siggraph always has the coolest stuff

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