Comments on: Super cool video stabilization technology

By: Rod Laird

Rod Laird — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:13:24 +0000

There’s many commercial applications for this techology; a niche that may have mass appeal may be the creation of virtual loops from video clips so that video-capable photo frames could show the “endless movie” of relatively static scenes. e.g. a ‘living’ portrait, landscape with wind blowing flora etc. I would not think large background changes could be accommodated, but it does seem that there would be tremendous demand from users of image frames for this style of applet…

By: Ethan Anderson

Ethan Anderson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:07:25 +0000

This looks fantastic! I can see this maturing into a game-changing technology.
but.
Something caught my eye at around 3:52 during the demonstration of the “low-pass” filter test… is it just me, or does that shadow look like it’s being cast by someone wearing a steady-cam or glide-cam rig? :)
[Oh noes--busted! ;-) --J.]

By: Pedro Estarque

Pedro Estarque — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:08:34 +0000

I would have died for something like this a few years ago. Some people go to extreme measures in other to stabilize their footage. [That wheelchair looks like a pretty sweet ride! --J.] The rate of advancement in this field is amazing. I think I'm getting used to being mesmerized by those Siggraph demonstrations. I could almost anticipate the sound of my jaw hitting the flour right before clicking the link. [Heh--well said. --J.]

By: Levi

Levi — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:33:18 +0000

Hi, this off topic, but are there plans to expand the subscription version of CS4 to the United States?

By: rich

rich — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:03 +0000

Here's some more on Siggraph papers: http://aeportal.blogspot.com/2009/06/seam-carving-cloning-video-cutouts.html http://aeportal.blogspot.com/2009/06/siggraph-2009-technical-papers-video.html [Shhh, I'm dribbling out the info it little increments, and you're blowing my cover. ;-) No, seriously, thanks for the links. I find it hard to know exactly when things get posted publicly. --J.]

By: John Eakin

John Eakin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:55:27 +0000

Very cool! Thanks for the post. This rocks!

By: Bh

Bh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:48:59 +0000

There is obviously some significant cropping that takes place. While the cropping is reasonable and expected, it can limit the applicability of the technique to video shot wide enough to eliminate the possibility of cropping important elements of the subject. The real leap would be to be implement this in-camera in a device that has a sensor whose area significantly exceeds that of the output frame.

By: Bastiaan van Oorde

Bastiaan van Oorde — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:39:00 +0000

I would love to see this in After Effects CS5. I know you guys can do it.
The last time I saw an impressive tech demo like this was the smart scaling of images. That Adobe now supplies in Photoshop CS4.