Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs
yaksoy.github.ioThat's pretty close to magick. Kudos!
Neat! And the video was pretty interesting!
Wait ... patent pending? Research done with public money? Yuck! Downvoted immediately.
> patent pending
Ugh, more reason to want AI to automate research. No more patents.
This is going to be used to shake down teams that had no idea these folks happened to do this off in their own corner of the world.
Could you expand on that?
I would like to implement this feature in software.
Now I cannot legally do so. Not even in free software.
We have to wait 20 years for this shit to expire. And by that point half of the people here will be retired and technology will have moved on, but this one important technique and feature will still be locked away.
See also: gif, mp3, h.264/5, seam carving, the ribbon, etc.