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humanodon  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: M.I.T. Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in Video

This is really cool. I do wonder though, how long it will be (or does it exist already?) before this is applied to porn.





haymakers9th  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

People were talking (on Reddit) about some day having it installed into Google Glass, and the point was raised that it seems to work well with subjects that aren't moving that much - since it observes by the shifts in a pixel, you can imaging it would be a lot more work doing all that AND tracking movement with precision to the pixel.

But, then again, if you had asked me yesterday if there was a way to visualize someone's heartbeat pulses in a simple video from a phone in my pocket, I'd say that was full of shit too.

thenewgreen  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, because when I'm watching porn I really like to know whether the actors have pulses. :)

I think it's awesome that they've made the source code public, I bet there are a lot of applications the public will think of that they perhaps didn't.

Fascinating stuff.

humanodon  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Heh, maybe not porn (grow little seed, grow!) but I'd be surprised if it weren't applied to at least some footage of sex. It happened for MRI.