As someone who’s a video production buff as well as someone who’s more interested than is probably healthy in where augmented reality is going, the following bit of news from Augmented Times definitely caught my attention:
Julien Pilet of Keio University, Japan, […] recently uploaded two videos showing off his PhD thesis(done at the EPFL), that explores registering and augmenting non-rigid objects using only one regular camera.
Not only the virtual EPFL sticker bends according to the contours of the shirt, its illumination model is adjusted as well (shadows cast on the shirt are cast on the sticker), and it handles occlusions nicely , most of the times. The only requirements are that the augmented object has a non-monotone texture, that it is locally planar and that it lacks holes.
The hardware used to render the effects wasn’t that advanced, either. He can eek out 18 frames per second at a resolution of 360×288 on a 2.0Ghz single core computer. We probably won’t see this on a mobile device for quite some time, but portable computing platforms can handle this in certain configurations.
The applications are mostly for production work – I know that video distribution platform Episodic uses a similar technology to do dynamic product placement campaigns on remnant video.
In the far future, though, when augmented reality systems become more integrated with day to day web interactions, we could see all manner of ad platforms spring to action; I can’t wait until the IAB starts defining what a standard TShirt banner ad should look like.
I can describe it, or I can show it to you. Here are the three videos Julien uploaded:
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