Video: Fauxtography made even easier!
posted at 9:31 am on September 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Remember the post last week about how new software was going to make image manipulation disturbingly easy? I didn’t know the half of it. This application requires a little more skill than the previous one but there’s nothing here, it seems, that a 12-year-old couldn’t handle.
The nuts and bolts stuff at the beginning is dry but the stick with it. The results are amazing.
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Well, it’s official. We can never trust anything we see with our own eyes, ever again. This is amazingly cool, but the potential abuses of this kind of thing in the media will be really, really bad.
aero on September 12, 2007 at 9:38 AM
This is a job for… Green Helmet! *dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah daaah*
Mojave Mark on September 12, 2007 at 9:40 AM
Amazing, and creepy.
Wars and rumors of wars.
Theworldisnotenough on September 12, 2007 at 9:40 AM
Thats awesome.
p0s3r on September 12, 2007 at 9:42 AM
The technology is not that fresh, actually. For instance, it has been used in “The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001) to shoot hills and mountaintops, derive 3d-models from the footage, and place virtual ruins on top of it. The process is well-documented on the companion DVDs of the extended editions.
The Matrix trilogy (1999-2003) used similar technology.
Niko on September 12, 2007 at 9:44 AM
The geometry on the last example was incomplete. If they had rotated the building around the z axis, the interior half of the structure appeared to be missing.
Still very cool. That would be handy to have for amateur game developers.
DaveS on September 12, 2007 at 9:49 AM
But now, it’s kinda’ affordable.
yo on September 12, 2007 at 9:50 AM
We’re as gullible as we wanna be.
Jewel on September 12, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Wow.
Jaibones on September 12, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Not really. Hardware costs to render the scene from the demo could buy you, uhm, several thousand iPhones.
And I’m not sure whether Reuters staff could operate it when they already fail at the Photoshop palette …
Niko on September 12, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Out goes video evidence in a court room.
Anybody remember the movie, “The Running Man” with Arnold? In it, the story is that video alterations were used to show to the public that Arnold killed a group of protestors despite the truth being he refused to fire on them.
Sensei Ern on September 12, 2007 at 9:56 AM
until it’s used to put me at the scene of a crime.
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2007 at 9:56 AM
A picture is worth
1,00010,000 words.This really means detection software must stay apace of this easily-used manipulative app.
Just proves the ol’ addage: Don’t believe everything you read…or see.
JetBoy on September 12, 2007 at 9:57 AM
I think you just solved the army’s recruiting problem — without using robots!
km on September 12, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Motion capture and this ease of replication should clue in the legal system that they need to demand a simultaneously- recorded parallel analog negative (celluloid and silver/dyes) for all court-bound (increasingly digital only) photography (still or motion), otherwise these images should be thrown out as unreliable.
If it is all zeroes and ones, and no one can say what the original was, how can the digital be trusted?
Habeus analogus should be the fundamental requirement for legal veracity.
No material negative, no case.
Otherwise, we risk our liberty on a manipulated fantasy.
profitsbeard on September 12, 2007 at 10:05 AM
that’s pretty sweet!
TheSitRep on September 12, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Yeah, “Put” you there. A new paranoid the cops set-me-up defense.
/oy
sunny on September 12, 2007 at 10:06 AM
Texture mapping and stitching of complex 3d objects is still biggest challenge and requires big bucks for proper hardware and software to handle correctly. But it is the future folks…and every day it will get easier, cheaper, and harder to detect.
Limerick on September 12, 2007 at 10:07 AM
Who needs to spend $10 million on special effects anymore?
That’s incredible technology in the hands of the common man.
Nethicus on September 12, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Nice! Now we can finally get the OJ video the jury needed.
Alden Pyle on September 12, 2007 at 11:03 AM
I dunno about anyone else, but its maddening that you cannot tell what’s real and what’s fake in movies or tv anymore.
lorien1973 on September 12, 2007 at 11:06 AM
That’s nonsense. The demo only involved very low poly-count geometry on top of a 2D image. It could ostensibly be run on an old fixed-function video card (prior to the programmable pipeline… we’re talking GeForce2 video cards) with only a modest machine.
DaveS on September 12, 2007 at 11:20 AM
All your fakes are not belong to us?
locomotivebreath1901 on September 12, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Will the NYT and other media outlets new slogan be:
All the news that’s made to fit
towhat we want to printMallard T. Drake on September 12, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Unshaven bloggers alone in basements hardly have alibis. They can get us all in one fell swoop.
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2007 at 11:26 AM
That’s super cool. However, a very, very similar app called Canoma did essentially the same thing back in 1999; Adobe bought it up, renamed it Atmosphere, and then abandoned it a couple of days later.
Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants.
saint kansas on September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM
Saint Kansas that was simply jaw-dropping!
kiakjones on September 12, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Just imaging what C&C 4 will be like.
- The Cat
P.S. Just think of the fan films in a few years.
MirCat on September 12, 2007 at 3:42 PM
:O
That’s a must watch all the way through.
Now apply what that does to picutes to text and google will die overnight.
- The Cat
MirCat on September 12, 2007 at 3:53 PM
:O
That’s a must watch all the way through.
Now apply what that does to picutes to text and google will die overnight.
- The Cat
MirCat on September 12, 2007 at 3:53 PM
Recent purchasers of Video Trace:
Reuters — Lebanon
AP
Al Jazeera
Recently downloaded bootleg version from internet:
Adam Gadahn
slp on September 12, 2007 at 4:15 PM
A recent testimonial:
Osama dead?
No problem.
Video Trace can raise the dead and bring them back to life.
—- Adam Gadahn
slp on September 12, 2007 at 4:30 PM
Fantastic link! Thanks Saint Kansas!
Blows me away that such a huge amount of image data can be just thrown around and displayed so effortlessly. The linked photo thing was awesome.
I love technology!
techno_barbarian on September 12, 2007 at 5:07 PM