You can no longer trust your eyes

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.

A research group at the University of Washington has demoed their project to enhance videos with photos or to manipulate objects in a video. Especially the last few minutes are very interesting. You can mark some objects you do not want in your video and the system automatically removes and replaces it. Nice 🙂

We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the scene. Finally, our system allows a user to remove unwanted objects and camera shake from the video.

I can not wait to try it myself.

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