Movie ReShape

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Well, this looks promising ...

Some programmers have developed a system for "real time" morphing of human figures in video. They describe it this way:

"We present a system for quick and easy manipulation of the body shape and proportions of a human actor in arbitrary video footage. The approach is based on a morphable model of 3D human shape and pose that was learned from laser scans of real people. The algorithm commences by spatio-temporally fitting the pose and shape of this model to the actor in either single-view or multi-view video footage. Once the model has been fitted, semantically meaningful attributes of body shape, such as height, weight or waist girth, can be interactively modified by the user. The changed proportions of the virtual human model are then applied to the actor in all video frames by performing an image-based warping. By this means, we can now conveniently perform spatio-temporal reshaping of human actors in video footage which we show on a variety of video sequences."

In non-technospeak, it means they can take video footage of an actor and realistically morph his body shape.

The site below includes a sample video where they bulk up a guy running on a beach.


http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/MovieReshape/

[FuzzyKB]

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Some years ago I came to the conclusion that actors would eventually become unnecessary in screen production. The other thing that would happen was that porn would be in fact one of the areas that would profit most from the technology as soon as the price came down far enough to allow it to be installed in a Mac or PC and to have it work well.

This new program and technology is fascinating and I want to thank you for presenting a link to it here.

Wonder what Hulumulu could do with this stuff and real people!

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