Tags: Augmented Reality, Dimished Reality, Ilmenau University, iMovie 11, Video, Video-Editing, Vitual Reality[ × ]

This is our crappy mock-up of diminished reality, not a working app.

I’m not a skilled video editor but it seems that removing objects from video would be a laborious task. I asked an editor friend of mine to quickly explain how he’d go about removing an object/person from a scene. It went something like this..

Cut out the object, fill the background ( with some sort of cloning tool I assume), motion tracking (apply motion to the object to fill in the missing object frame by frame ), he then went on and on with additional tweaks.. but I thought I’d spare you the details.

Bottom line it sounded painstaking. So, software that could do it for you by simply circling the object would be a godsend? I asked. The answer was “hells yeah”

The virtual worlds department at German University Ilmenau may have simplified the entire process for editors– and it works in real-time — they’re calling it Diminished Reality being the opposite of augmented reality, a technology that basically brings the ‘occurrence’ of objects by overlaying information-objects in real-time.

While this is bound to cut down some time for editors, on the other hand, revolutionary tools like this one may limit the work you get — its becoming rapidly easier for newbies to produce slick professional looking content, just look at some of the new tools in iMovie11.… Continue Reading