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Is there a reason many of these crazy image processing technologies never seem to have actual demos or releases? The only exception I can think of it the "smart erase" idea, which has been implemented in Photoshop as well as Gimp.
What other image manipulation software do you follow closely?
This is just in case you want to throw a few upvotes their way for being first. This also illustrates that late night (PDT/UTC -8) posts don't get a whole lot of votes and proper timing is crucial to getting lots of votes.
Wow, super impressive. And meanwhile, Silicon Valley is working on the gazillionth social photo sharing app.
I vote for this to be used with 3D printer
This is awesome - but how do they reconstruct the backgrounds that the objects previously obscured? There must be more photos?
i thought about that too - i think the background is simply a mirror image of the foreground, and that the object 3d shape is symmetrical
however, it seems strange in the first example how mountain ranges appear where none were before... how did the algos know to put it there?
The key here is really complementary use of ‘what humans are good at’ and ‘what machines are good at’. In this case, it’s fair to say the machine, by analyzing pixels, can’t figure out perspective very well. The human can do that just fine, given an interface mechanism. The machine is good at detecting edges and seeing similarity between pixels. Given hints from the human that ‘this point is within an object’ and her…
I'm not a HN etiquette stickler, and I'm not accusing anyone of any foul play, but the actual YouTube video was submitted 17 hours prior to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358080 This is just in case you want to throw a few upvotes their way for being first. This also illustrates that late night (PDT/UTC -8) posts don't get a whole lot of votes and proper timing is crucial to getting lots of votes.
Personally, I'm just glad to see this video finally getting traction. It really is such a cool demo. It even stands out in the field of consistently high-quality SIGGRAPH demos. Can't wait to read the paper!
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If you're just removing part of the image after cutting around it with a tool like this, having the object interpreted as 3D isn't really going to be of any benefit. The impressive thing here, imho, is the seemingly effortless and seamless transition and replacement. The background is fixed and the surface texture is stretched in what seems like real time.
Yes... I know the 3D part is the more impressive part. But I was also impressed with its ability to back fill the background.
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i thought about that too - i think the background is simply a mirror image of the foreground, and that the object 3d shape is symmetrical
apparently they are using some other algorithm to do this - even more impressive! however, it seems strange in the first example how mountain ranges appear where none were before... how did the algos know to put it there?