[Skybird]

The software here works slightly different.

It first redcues the overall detail and resolution of the material - in real time.

It then automatically fills the defined area you want to clean of a given object with an auto-generated pattern that is calculated by the non-deleted background nearby - in real time.

It then increases the resolution again. By that, the difference in detail and quality between the edited and the nonedited parts of the material get reduced even more. Again: in real time.

As far as I understood it, the software is capable to recognise all by itself the once marked object. It automatically runs the above descriobed procedure on the object in later frames, even when the camera moves and the viewing angle changes: in real time.

Real time means: a delay of not more than 40 ms.

Note that in the demonstration video, it still does not work perfect - you can see a dark round sport in the place where the computermouse used to be. These artefacts, they say, will be overcome in two years or so, they estimate.

Consider what this means for silhouette recognition, and face recognition. Combine that with thbis new technology, and you get an impression of what the future holds. For example you will film a meeting of persons with live link to TV, and the wanted person you want to hide from the audience - simply is not visible in the signal output the camera and video unit transfers to the transmitter. All this with a time delay of 40 ms only, so that nobody could get the idea that what he sees is being manipulated - it is "live", right down to the second, isn't it!?

Considering the exploision in computer potency in the past 20 years and the unbelievable detail and realism of computer graphics being enabled by this, I would not rule out anything anymore.