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Well great. Now I can't even trust live video not to be censored. I wonder how it works on non-static objects, like people? Seeing the drain removed from the s
by lmkg 16y ago
Well great. Now I can't even trust live video not to be censored.
I wonder how it works on non-static objects, like people? Seeing the drain removed from the sink made me think of removing faces from people. Advance it enough, and you could probably get a visual Autotune for people to make them generically attractive by removing wrinkles and whatnot. Quite useful for politics, news, etc.
- raphman 16y agoActually there is already a tool for enhancing anatomical features: "MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos", http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/MovieReshape/ http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/MovieReshape/
- pak 16y agoThe OP is a more advanced technology. But as to whether you've already seen this on live video, if you've ever watched a baseball game, live coverage of home plate usually replaces the advertisement behind the batter. You'll see that newer stadiums facilitate this by painting blocks of solid color in the spots where the ads appear on TV.
- hugh3 16y agoGiven that the much simpler problem of autotune can't be solved without giving the voice an artificial sound, I doubt that auto-removal of wrinkles is going to work very well. Of course you can also just remove wrinkles with a blur. I guess this gets more and more difficult in the age of HDTV. Also: I'm less concerned about the fact that I can't trust live video to be uncensored, and more concerned about the fact that conspiracy theorists now can't trust live video to be uncensored. Now that they've been given the idea, I look forward to the next round of conspiracy theories, in which pixels are analyzed to prove that [favourite boogeyman] was really behind [next major event].