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Software Removes People from HD Videos

03/13/2013, Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) have developed a video inpainting software that can effectively remove people or objects from high definition footage. Inpainting is the process of reconstructing lost or deteriorated parts of images and videos. When [...]

CPU against GPU in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

07/28/2009, WSJ’s Don Clark has written an interesting article about how GPUs (graphics processing unit) and CPUs (central processing unit) are competing to be the top processor in Hollywood’s Computer Graphics (CG) business. In “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, ILM [...]