3D image editor demonstrated at Siggraph Asia

A publication to appear soon in the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 proceedings describes a “Photoshop 3D” real-time editor that is able to cut and paste and move objects in X, Y and Z directions in the image, with correct occlusions and drop shadows.

“As one of the main contributions of our system, we introduce a stereo billboard method for stereoscopic rendering of the copied selection. Our approach preserves the stereo volume and is robust to the inevitable inaccuracies of the depth maps computed from a stereo pair of images.”

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