Soft Scissors

[Gavin Greenwalt]

http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/softscissors/softscissors-SIG07.mp4

Can I hear a "Hell yeah!"

Now just ensure it doesn't chatter and automate it with a spline stroke. Goodbye rotoscoping. They show hair but no motion blur... I wonder... I wonder...

 

[Robert Mott]

http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/softscissors/softscissors-SIG07.mp4

Can I hear a "Hell yeah!"

Now just ensure it doesn't chatter and automate it with a spline stroke. Goodbye rotoscoping. They show hair but no motion blur... I wonder... I wonder...

I am looking forward to playing with it.

RKM

 

[Yuval Shrem]

Wow!
This looks incredible!

I wonder if there is any way to implement this algoritm for more than just single frames...
In any case that's very impressive!

 

[Brook Willard]

Gavin, do you have any more links/information pertaining to it?

 

[Poi Boy]

I recently bought this "soft scissors" plugin for photoshop and it is killer,great results. I'm sure it can and will be adapted to moving images.
Aloha
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[Yuval Shrem]

I recently bought this "soft scissors" plugin for photoshop and it is killer,great results. I'm sure it can and will be adapted to moving images.
Aloha
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Where did you get it?
I couldn't find it for sale anywhere...

link??

 

[Ace]

fuck yes.

This + 4k = endless possibilities

 

[Ace]

Poi, Where did you buy this plugin?

 

[Poi Boy]

From the link below; they call it power mask, I tried it on a hair shot and had to have it.
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http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/photshopprods.htm

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

From the link below; they call it power mask, I tried it on a hair shot and had to have it.
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http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/photshopprods.htm

not sure that's the same code -

 

[Poi Boy]

yup, same stuff, same example used in the UC Berkeley paper.
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[Yuval Shrem]

Thank you Poi!

not sure that's the same code -

Yes it is!
If you check the video tutorial on that page, you'll see it's the same.

By the way, the price tag is 150$ if you were wondering...

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Has anybody tried it with moving images?

 

[Poi Boy]

It still takes a fair bit of time to do one frame but the results are great. Don't get rid of your roto software yet but hopefully it will go there eventually.
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[Yuval Shrem]

It still takes a fair bit of time to do one frame but the results are great. Don't get rid of your roto software yet but hopefully it will go there eventually.
Aloha
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In the PDF about the project they are talking about a future version that will support "video".

They didn't mention any timeframe through...

 

[Antoine Baumann]

I had short contact with Jue Wang (one of the creator of these plugin), which wrote to me that "The future direction of our research would be developing an easy-to-use video masking system based on these existing techniques."

This is really encouraging...

antoine.

 

[Robert Mott]

I thought the current iteration was rather painful. I look forward to newer easier to use versions.

RKM

 

[Ben Feuer]

Awesome.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

couldn't you just do a rough stroke roto and then cache it almost like a batch operation?

 

[Poi Boy]

Maybe, but needs more work to clean up inside/outside.
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