Video inlays

Dmitry Rudoy, Lihi Zelnik-Manor
2013 Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST '13  
Technion, Israel Figure 1: Adding an artificial object to an existing video usually requires high-end tools and intensive user interaction. Our system allows to inlay any number of objects, a balcony and the wall lamps on the right, into any video via a simple user interface and minimal user interaction. This is achieved by representing the video structure and texture as a mosaic (center). Abstract Digital editing technology is highly popular as it enables to easily change photos and add to
more » ... artificial objects. Conversely, video editing is still challenging and mainly left to the professionals. Even basic video manipulations involve complicated software tools that are typically not adopted by the amateur user. In this paper we propose a system that allows an amateur user to performs a basic matchmove by adding an inlay to a video. Our system does not require any previous experience and relies on a simple user interaction. We allow adding 3D objects and volumetric textures to virtually any video. We demonstrate the method's applicability on a variety of videos downloaded from the web.
doi:10.1145/2503713.2503741 dblp:conf/vrst/RudoyZ13 fatcat:7sjro7xeqrakdi53jzh5zee62i