Change Your Clothes, Virtually.
November 23rd, 2007
This amazing tech demo shows off an augmented reality system which can digitally swap out textures on clothing. While it sounds pretty simple, the ability to exactly mimic the behavior and appearance of cloth is extremely difficult to pull off.
Developed by computer graphics researchers Volker Scholz and Marcus Magnor, the texture replacement technology uses a complex algorithm which encodes the coordinates of textures in a sampled video sequence, then replaces them with a new texture map, complete with shadows and all the fabric folds.
Designed for use in movie and video post-production, it’s only a matter of time before we start to see directors changing out costume designs long after the film is in the can.
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Categories: Digital Imaging Future Tech Interactive
Tags: 3d augmented reality cloth digital fabric texture Video virtual
when oh when will this be commercially available for something as simple as photos?!
I think photos may be harder, just because with video there’s several frames that can be compared so the computer can tell that the shadow is moving, and not part of the pattern.
Very interesting!
Reminds me a bit of the “RotoTexture” work of Hui Fang.
I wonder if they’re using a similar approach.
I see future in this project
at first i didn’t get but now i do and i like it very much i would so wear it out in public i would get a kick out of seeing people staring at me like that