Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video 236
Ashutosh Saxena writes "Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it. It works for videos as well — you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems. The researchers suggest that anyone with a video camera might earn some spending money by agreeing to have unobtrusive corporate logos placed inside their videos before they are posted online."
John Holmes move over... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes! Now you too can star in your very own pr0n movie!
Ah, the wonders of software!
Stanford sold out (Score:3, Funny)
It is nice to see top universities working on better advertising. You know, I was thinking to myself just yesterday, "There is just not enough product placement in society. I hope someone makes it easier to put advertising in digital media."
Somebody tell the BertIsEvil guy. (Score:4, Funny)
Somebody tell the BertIsEvil guy.
Re:Oh, thank goodness! (Score:2, Funny)
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Last night I dreamed about The Office cast in a Seinfield episode. Maybe NBC is already working on the technology.
Aww I wanted real poo.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing new here (Score:2, Funny)
Re:oh look, its the anti-ad crowd (Score:2, Funny)
There are ads on Slashdot? (O_o)
Re:remove advertising? (Score:1, Funny)
Don't worry. They're already lobbying for the creation of a Digital Millennium Advertising Act to allowing them to sue you for all the money you and your descendants to ten generations will make for the unthinkable crime of removing, or heaven forbid, ignoring their advertisements, as doing so is purely unAmerican, undermines our glorious freedom, and above all, aids terrorists!
Re:oh look, its the anti-ad crowd (Score:3, Funny)
We call them "Slashvertisements" or something like that. I think it's the uninteresting stories that are promoting a product and / or service.
It's not like we're reading TFA's anyways..
Re:It will, and does (Score:4, Funny)
The word 'brainwash' has always intrigued me. It sounds like it would be a good thing to have your brain washed. It would then be clean, fresh, and ready for its next adventure!
Besides, people with dirty minds probably could use a little brainwashing.
Greetings from Stepford!
Re:It will, and does (Score:4, Funny)
You can wash my brain if you want, but only with Tide or Tylenol.
Wait, why did I say Tylenol?
Re:It will, and does (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Youtube (Score:4, Funny)
yea, it's kinda sad that they developed such a cool tech, and the first thing they thought to do with it is to plaster everyone's home videos with Coca-Cola logos. i mean, how much are you really going to be paid by Coca-Cola to add their logo to your home videos? does video documentation of your child's first steps or first words really need corporate sponsorship?
some things don't need to be monetized. now, covering up the playboy posters in videos of your dorm room to send to your parents--that's a useful application.
Re:Generics (Score:4, Funny)
I've tried generic alcohol before. It didn't sit with me well at all.
Long story short, keep away from the Isopropyl brand of hard liquor. It may be cheap, but you sure do pay for it tomorrow!
Re:It will, and does (Score:5, Funny)
You are basing your opinion of a whole company and all of its current and future products on the actions of a small group of people who made an error in judgment 20+ years ago? Sounds pretty petty to me.
- Ryan Jacobson
Union Carbide, Project Manager
Bhopal Division