Special Effects in Film Making with Object Based Transformations

The new media initiative project of Ryerson University had been successful in applying image and video processing techniques in creating special effects in film making. Our system utilizes a graph cut image segmentation and snakes active contour approach to obtain object cut outs in 3-D with tracking. It uses exemplar-based inpainting for background filling for missing regions uncovered by object transformation. The two methods combined allows for easy video object editing with reduction in user input. Previously implemented shot detection by twin window amplification method and steerable pyramids texture generation is also part of the system. Lastly, a set of transformation was implemented that serves as a basis for testing the system.