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History/Context: How Green Screen Worked Before Computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msPCQgRPPjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msPCQgRPPjI Hollywood's

History/Context: How Green Screen Worked Before Computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msPCQgRPPjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msPCQgRPPjI Hollywood's History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aoUXjSfsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aoUXjSfsI Zoran Perisic's 'Zoptic' front-projection system used in Superman: The Movie https://www.fxphd.com/fxblog/effects-of-days-past-making-superman-fly/ https://www.fxphd.com/fxblog/effects-of-days-past-making-sup... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXC16p8tNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXC16p8tNc The technology that’s replacing the green screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yNkBic7GfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yNkBic7GfI Mandalorian 'Stagecraft' technology https://www.slashfilm.com/the-mandalorian-stagecraft-photos/ https://www.slashfilm.com/the-mandalorian-stagecraft-photos/

homarp 6y ago
some more context: This research is done by SenseTime Labs and CityU of Hong Kong HN discussion on SenseTime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196704 see also https://qz.com/1248493/sensetime-the-billion-dollar-alibaba-backed-ai-company-thats-quietly-watching-everyone-in-china/ https://qz.com/1248493/sensetime-the-billion-dollar-alibaba-... and MIT partnership - https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-announce-effort-advance-artificial-intelligence-research-0228 https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-announce-effort-adva... they were also on the Trade blacklist last year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195107 Interesting paper: "Eliminating Background-bias for Robust Person Re-identification" - https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Tian_Eliminating_Background-Bias_for_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Tian_...
gdubs 6y ago
These are great — particularly that first link. What a great explainer.
virtualritz 6y ago
> The technology that’s replacing the green screen [...] This is only replacing matting (which includes blue screen) in a very specific type of photography for now. Namely when the background is out of focus.

homarp 6y ago

some more context: This research is done by SenseTime Labs and CityU of Hong Kong HN discussion on SenseTime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196704 see also https://qz.com/1248493/sensetime-the-billion-dollar-alibaba-backed-ai-company-thats-quietly-watching-everyone-in-china/ https://qz.com/1248493/sensetime-the-billion-dollar-alibaba-... and MIT partnership - https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-announce-effort-advance-artificial-intelligence-research-0228 https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-announce-effort-adva... they were also on the Trade blacklist last year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195107 Interesting paper: "Eliminating Background-bias for Robust Person Re-identification" - https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Tian_Eliminating_Background-Bias_for_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Tian_...

gdubs 6y ago

These are great — particularly that first link. What a great explainer.

virtualritz 6y ago

> The technology that’s replacing the green screen [...] This is only replacing matting (which includes blue screen) in a very specific type of photography for now. Namely when the background is out of focus.