Interactive Video Cutout

The work presents an interactive system for quickly creating alpha mattes for objects in a video. Unlike previous techniques commonly employed in the visual-fx industry (e.g., rotoscoping) our system can help novice users create professional quality mattes with very little manual effort.

These alpha mattes can then be used to cut out objects from one video and composite them into another video. Alpha mattes can also be used to apply image filters selectively to objects in a video.

Project website:
http://juew.org/projects/VideoCutout/VideoCutout.htm

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Video-matting
• alpha-matte
• rotoscoping
• SIGGRAPH-2005

[santy091]

awesome

[Kelvington]

I spoke to Mr. Cohen yesterday, and he told me this is not really going to be a REAL program, it was project that was not really turned into a final form. It's very sad, because, it's such an impressive concept. You can see something similar happening in real time in the Xbox 360 game "Your In The Movies". The good news is Soft Scissors can be purchased from Digital Film Tools, and it's called Power Mask, so if your good with macros, you can probably run it on your videos.

[Kelvington]

I think Microsoft is using for the Xbox 360 game "You're In The Movies". Now when will they just release it to the PC users?

[54spiritedwill54]

awesome work guys!

[whatatidymess]

Here can I get this software, anyone please??

[whatatidymess]

That is the coolist softwere I've seen in a long time, ace

[sandyanna]

The results are better than many still photo programs.

[terrecet]

Very nice work guys! I will be interested in seeing what comes next. You can easily see how this could be included in large scale professional AV suites.

[lucablue007]

Does this Tutorial come in English?!!!!

[cableguy316]

Seriously, if a demo becomes available, I'd love to beta test. This looks mindbending.