Abstract:
"
Quality of movie graphics and scenes is a popular topic among movie critiques. Most
of the blockbuster movies are famous due to their extraordinary scenes and special
effects. Therefore VFX (special effects) artists tend to use novel techniques to improve
the quality of the modern movies. One memorable movie which has remarkable special
effects is Jurassic Park (1993). The entire Jurassic Park movie series is the best example
to observe the evolution of VFX. Creating high-end visual effects is a complex
workflow where each shot is subjected to artistic operations. The key step in this
workflow is the process called digital rotoscoping which is manually outlining and
cutting out the characters and objects in a raw video frame via software. This is a time consuming process and the average number of frames a professional artist can
rotoscope per day is 15. Due to its complexity, it has become a bottleneck of the post production pipeline.
Therefore, this research project proposes a novel way to automate the manual
rotoscoping process with image processing techniques like instance segmentation. The
solution was able to reduce the time taken for manual rotoscoping and now the process
is fully automatic. VFX pipeline will be smoother with this solution and it will directly
impact the quality of future movie scenes. "
