I'd like me some of this, please

Paper and demonstrations of some gob-smacking video enhancement demonstrations. The basic model is to use video to capture geometry and dynamic lighting detail, but high-resolution stills to provide the texture mapping.

Utterly, utterly amazing. Also scary, in a ‘pictures lying to me’ sort of way. Well worth a look.

(via Chairman Gruber)

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After the use-video-for-geometry-and-stills-for-high-res-texture-maps tech demo, here’s another gob-smacking bit of video frighteningness: Blimey. Using multi-point motion-tracking to unwrap a texture... Read More

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo. I’ve a sneaking suspicion that the processing overhead for handling this... Read More

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