Special effect production is an important technology for movie industry. Although sophisticated equipments can be used to produce scenery such as fire and smoke, usually, the approach is expensive and perhaps dangerous. Can sceneries be re-produced based on existing videos using digital technology? The answer is yes but it is difficult. In this video demonstration, we propose new mechanisms using motion inpainting technologies. Dynamic texture can be altered and reused under control. In addition, actors with repeated motion can be interpolated or extrapolated and incorporated into the falsified scenery. We demonstrate using our tool to produce realistic video narratives based on existing videos. Five sets of results as well as the source videos used are available at http://member.mine.tku.edu.tw/www/ACMMM09VideoDemo.

We change the behavior of actors in a video. For instance, the outcome of a 100-meter race in the Olympic game can be falsified. We track objects and segment motions using a modified mean shift mechanism. The resulting video layers can be played in different speeds and at different reference points with respect to the original video. In order to obtain a smooth movement of target objects, a motion interpolation mechanism is proposed based on continuous stick figures (i.e., a video of human skeleton) and video inpainting. The video inpainting mechanism is performed in a quasi-3D space via guided 3D patch matching for filling. Interpolated target objects and background layers are fused by using graph cut. It is hard to tell whether a falsified video is the original. We demonstrate the original and the falsified videos in our website at http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/video_demo/). The proposed technique can be used to create special effects in movie industry.

We create video scenes using existing videos. A panorama is generated from background video, with foreground objects removed by video inpainting technique. A video planning script is provided by the user on the panorama with accurate timing of actors. Actions of these actors are extensions of existing cyclic motions, such as walking, tracked and extrapolated using our motion analysis techniques. Although the types of video story generated are limited, however, it is possible to use the mechanism proposed to generate forgery videos. Interested readers should visit our tool demonstration and forgery videos at http://member.mine.tku.edu.tw/www/ACMMM08-VideoPlanning.

Video Falsifying is a technique for generating fake video by altering, combining, or creating new video contents. For instance, the outcome of a 100-meter race can be changed. Alternatively, the winner of a horse race can be created from combined videos. The technique is for special effect production in movie industry. We demonstrate how to use our video falsifying techniques in special effects production. Interested readers should look at our demonstration website at http://member.mine.tku.edu.tw/www/ACMMM08VideoDemo.

Aged motion pictures may contain different types of defects, such as spikes and scratch lines. Several detection mechanisms were proposed to find scratches. However, it is relatively hard to precisely restore aged films if the continuation of image property is not considered in the temporal domain. This paper proposes a technique on restoring aged films based on simultaneously considering the outmost patches/pixels which are going to be inpainted. The inpainting order plays an important factor for human visualization. By eliminating the inpainting order problem, the results of restored films have good quality as compared to earlier approach. Application of our technique can be used in the restoration of aged films.