Researchers at the Institute of Visual Computing have made it possible to remove objects from live recordings of three-dimensional environments without time delay while the camera remains in motion.
Placing digital objects in a real scene is now familiar to many as augmented reality (AR). Its counterpart, diminished reality (DR), is less well known: DR makes it possible to remove objects from a scene and fill the resulting void in a plausible way.
To achieve this in a 3D space, previous methods required a lot of computing power and could only generate the adapted scene with a time delay and sometimes incorrect representations.
A team led by Dieter Schmalstieg, Shohei Mori and Denis Kalkofen from the Institute of Visual Computing at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), together with Hideo Saito's team at Keio University in Japan, has now succeeded in making 3D objects disappear in real time using diminished reality by combining various technologies. This allows a room to be viewed live through a camera in its altered form.
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