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01.02.04, 21:08
Wiadomo już wszystkim, że ze zdjęciami można zrobić wszystko, używając odpowiedniego oprogramowania. Podobnie można zmienić dowolnie film na vodeo.
Ale mało znany jest fakt, że możliwa jest manipulacja obrazem video w czasie rzeczywistym (czyli na żywo). Wystarzc yparosekundowe opóźnienie w relacji (to sie robi często w amerykanskiej TV (żeby np. wyciąć przeklenstwa na koncercie czy rozdaniu nagród).
So what?s the big deal, you ask. After all, Stalin?s staff routinely airbrushed persona non grata out of photos more than a half-century ago.
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What sets the Witt demo apart?way apart?is that the technology used to ?virtually delete? the skater can now be applied in real time, live, even as a camera records a scene and instantly broadcasts it to viewers. In the fraction of a second between video frames, any person or object moving in the foreground can be edited out, and objects that aren?t there can be edited in and made to look real. ?Pixel plasticity,? Livingston calls it. The implication for those at the satellite imagery conference was sobering: Pictures from orbit may not necessarily be what the satellite?s electronic camera actually recorded.
But the ramifications of this new technology reach beyond satellite imagery. As live electronic manipulation becomes practical, the credibility of all video will become just as suspect as Soviet Cold War photos. The problem stems from the nature of modern video. Live or not, it is made of pixels, and as Livingston says, pixels can be changed.
www.imakenews.com/techreview/e_article000005211.cfm
Lying With Pixels
Last year, Steven Livingston, professor of political communication at George Washington University, astonished attendees at a conference on the geopolitical pros and cons of satellite imagery. He didn?t produce evidence of new military mobilizations or global pandemics. Instead, he showed a video of figure skater Katarina Witt during a 1998 skating competition.
In the clip, Witt gracefully plies the ice for about 20 seconds. Then came what is perhaps one of the most unusual sports replays ever seen. The background was the same, the camera movements were the same. In fact, the image was identical to the original in all ways except for a rather important one: Witt had disappeared, along with all signs of her, such as shadows or plumes of ice flying from her skates. In their place was exactly what you would expect if Witt had never been there to begin with?the ice, the walls of the rink and the crowd.