The Walt Disney Company
Image cancellation from video

Abstract:

A video processing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing an image cancellation software code. The hardware processor executes the image cancellation software code to receive a frame of video, detect an object image for cancellation from the received frame, and map the received frame from an original representation to a representation in which the object image does not intersect a frame boundary. The image cancellation software code also filters the mapped frame to remove features of the object image that appear to be in motion, inpaint the mapped and filtered frame to mask the object image, and reverse map the mapped and filtered frame having the object image masked to the original representation. The reverse mapped frame is composited with the received frame to produce an inpainted frame of video from which the object image has been cancelled.