On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:22:03 +0000, scott wrote:

>> Modifying RGB videos with motion capture
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk&app=desktop
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>> Inserting 3D objects into photographs without access to scene or source
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>> http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/247346/way-cooler-than-
photoshop-add-3d-objects-to-2d-photos/
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> I don't think courts take any video or photo evidence to be assumed
> authentic anyway. Not unless you have additional evidence that it is.
> It's already too easy to edit with photoshop or a video editor.
> 
>> Terrifying possibilities for misuse.  In fact... Are there -any-
>> legitimate uses for this technology?
> 
> Avoiding having to pay for the expensive actor to come back in again
> because they forgot to shoot something?

My initial thought was translations of films - if you record the facial 
expressions of a voice actor performing a role in, say, Japanese, then 
you could get T2 with the Terminator actually speaking Japanese, instead 
of looking like it's poorly dubbed.

Jim



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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