Cool advances in technology - from SIGGRAPH 2008.

[andrewducker]

This is pretty darn cool - advances in Photosynth that build a 3D scene and then put a load of photos of that scene in it, so that as you move from place to place you see different photos of it.

This is waaay cooler though - using still photos to enhance video footage - it looks at video footage, works out what the 3D world in it looks like, and then uses photos to enhance it. And then allows for all sorts of editing of that footage - including editing of it. The final example (the flower shop) is particularly impressive.

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[marrog.livejournal.com]

Dear God that second vid's amazing.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

Don't know if it's the same guys but i remember seeing a segment somewhere where a single photo of a 4X4 was turned into a 3D video.
Technology has come so far, shame script writers seem to fail to keep up with what can be achieved by visual effects - films can be made to look any way a director wants but the writers tend to produce junk.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Those really are both fantastically cool - thank you!

Incidentally, what did you mean to write where you said 'editing of that footage - including editing of it'?

[andrewducker]

I have _no_ idea.

[meico.livejournal.com]

The second video is jaw droppingly amazing. I'm astounded at how well they've pulled tat off...

P.S. An old friend of mine, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, is on the head guy on Photosynth. That said, his research is more on the photo streaming and information display side of the algorithms used...