Wow – Interactive Video Manipulation

Holy sh*tola, I want all of this all of this stuff…yesterday:

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

Here’s the link to a bit more background + some academic papers the team behind these techniques has assembled.

http://www.adobe.com/technology/graphics/video_visualization_and_interaction.html

I see quite a few applications for screen video. For instance it would be great to associate a callout bubble with a window, or see a path that the mouse or a window followed, or reposition windows by intelligently looking forward and backward in the video–lot’s to chew on.