DuctTake: Spatiotemporal Video Compositing

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2013
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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DuctTake is a system designed to enable practical compositing of multiple takes of a scene into a single video. Current industry solutions are based around object segmentation, a hard problem that requires extensive manual input and cleanup, making compositing an expensive part of the film-making process. Our method instead composites shots together by finding optimal spatiotemporal seams using motion-compensated 3D graph cuts through the video volume. We describe in detail the required components, decisions, and new techniques that together make a usable, interactive tool for compositing HD video, paying special attention to running time and performance of each section. We validate our approach by presenting a wide variety of examples and by comparing result quality and creation time to composites made by professional artists using current state-of-the-art tools.
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@article{
10.1111:cgf.12025
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
DuctTake: Spatiotemporal Video Compositing
}}, author = {
Rüegg, Jan
and
Wang, Oliver
and
Smolic, Aljoscha
and
Gross, Markus
}, year = {
2013
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/cgf.12025
} }
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