Check out this amazing detail recognition and tracking camera technology, code-named “Predator”. Not only can you show it something to watch, it will learn how that reference looks even as it moves, rotates and reappears in other forms (like a photo). To learn more about the inventor, check out Zdenek Kalals’ page on it.

No doubt this guy already has a cushy job working for his local spy network.

In honor of our company outing to see the latest Tron film, Tron: Legacy, here’s some great Fandago coverage of the film. Great insight into all the work that goes into the acting and production value that goes a film this mind-blowing, including some cool insights into the technology used around 2:00.

Hand-tweened facial mapping and 3D animation has always been one of the hardest things to make convincing. There’s just something… human… that can’t be easily recreated in a virtual character. Especially not in the lower-polygon meshes used by 3D gaming.

However, thanks to some of the latest facial actor capture technology in play at Rockstar Games, all of that is changing like never before as seen here in the upcoming L.A. Noire game.

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So by now, you’ve presumably seen and been amazed by the incredibly fast new content-aware fills in Photoshop CS5 that can basically delete objects from a photo. However, you may not have seen a similar principle being applied real time to video footage. While it’s not perfect yet, the results and demos are amazing. Click here for more information on Diminished Reality software which removes objects from video in real time..

This video demonstrates some crazy new software, “MovieReshape”, which uses a combination of motion tracking and shape recognition to map a scalable 3d model against the person in the video. From there, the possibilities are pretty wide open to make the person taller, shorter, or fuller in the muscles, breasts, etc.