Photo Wake-Up is a pretty impressive (if poorly named) project created by researchers at the University of Washington Reality Lab, with big gun sponsorship/assistance from the National Science Foundation, Intel, Facebook, Google and Huawei:
Given a single photo as input, we create a 3D animatable version of the subject, which can now walk towards the viewer. The 3D result can be experienced in augmented reality; in the result [in the video] the user has virtually hung the artwork with a HoloLens headset and can watch the character run out of the painting from different views.
More on the project (and academic paper) at this link. I'd be a bit more skeptical this process works as smoothly as it seems in the demo video, but the major corporate backing suggests we'll see a consumer-ready version of this relatively soon.
Congrats to Chung-Yi Weng, Brian Curless and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman for what looks to be a breakthrough in 3D graphics with massive potential for augmented reality.
Hat tip: Reddit.
Sceptical yeah right. Especially the 3D version - much added textures for one so calling lobbox on it but nice toy. Even in 2D is neat.
Now do something worthwile. Such as that picture of Phan Thị Kim Phúc
Expect to see a bunch of ads using it. Except I won't as I run all the ad blocks :)
Posted by: sirhc desantis | Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 11:07 AM