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If you dislike the path you expect on TV , a newfangled form of simulacrum - manipulation software system could make you feel better about yourself .
highly-developed byChristian Theobaltof the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken , Germany , and co-worker , it allows professional and unpaid movie - makers to dramatically spay how muscular , leggy or heavy people come along on photographic film . Until now this could only be done by laborious human body - by - skeletal system retouching .
Theobalt ’s team commence by generating 3D scans of 120 men and women of varying sizing and build in a range of poses . By unite the scans , they were able to create a single mannikin that could be morph from any body form or pose to any other .
turn to the telecasting sequence contain the actor whose shape they care to fake , the squad uses a mix of off - the - ledge and bespoke software to cross the doer ’s silhouette through the conniption . The software then maps the silhouette onto the morphable model , and tweaks it to generate the require height , weight , leg distance or muscularity .
The technology has obvious covering in films like Raging Bull , for which Robert de Niro put on 27 kg in two months to depict his character . “ The histrion would n’t need to go to all that trouble , ” says Theobalt .
Cultural preference
It could also be a cost - saver for ad companies . Because standards of beauty vary across cultures , it is the norm to shoot several adverts for a undivided product . With the novel software , business firm could make one film and tweak the model ’s dimension to become different countries .
Although the results are realistic , extreme alterations slenderly distort a film ’s background . To find out whether this is distracting , Theobalt ’s team asked 15 people to view an unchanged television while 15 others watched a variation in which the thespian ’s torso human body had been tweaked . There was no pregnant difference between the number of torture the two group reported , suggest that this distortion will not unduly vex consultation .
Daniel Cohen - Orof the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University , Israel , is developing a standardised technique thatalters the appearance of masses in picture . He is impressed by Theobalt ’s software , but note that it may not always be applicable . “ It requires a clear panorama , meaning no occlusion or distracting objects , ” he enjoin .
The workplace will be unveil in December at the electronic computer graphics conferenceSiggraph Asiain Seoul , South Korea .
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