I don't know what the CG paper has to do with weapons research, but that's one cool program they're working on!

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GilRuiz1: I don't know what the CG paper has to do with weapons research, but that's one cool program they're working on!

they photoshopped some missiles being launched a few years ago.

moistD: they photoshopped some missiles being launched a few years ago.

Ah, of course! Thanks!

Paging Reuters photographers.....

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holy shiate that's awesome. Adobe, you need to buy this for your creative suite right now!

That is pretty awesome technology. As if it wasn't hard enough to trust a photograph before... it just got even harder.

I think these guys main contribution is just taking a whole bunch of techniques and bundling them up into one program. Definitely a bit of work to devise a good system that gives good results, but it's a predictably evolutionary advance.

To me, the really cool computer vision stuff is when you can get the computer to understand a scene on it's own without user input. If you just gave a computer a picture and it could bounce balls around the room, THAT would be impressive.

I was deployed with a PATRIOT air defense unit to Kuwait when that story broke. I remember I put it in that day's intelligence summary, with this helpful diagram.

nicely done, subby

Fubini: To me, the really cool computer vision stuff is when you can get the computer to understand a scene on it's own without user input. If you just gave a computer a picture and it could bounce balls around the room, THAT would be impressive.

Yes, that would be awesome. And it would be bordering on intelligent AI. This is a pretty impressive piece of work though. Doing what they are accomplishing but manually would take hella longer to accomplish. This is pretty sweet. But I'll believe it when I play with it.