filename : Rue13a.pdf entry : inproceedings conference : Eurographics pages : 51--61 year : 2013 month : title : DuctTake: Spatiotemporal Video Compositing subtitle : author : Rueegg, Jan and Wang, Oliver and Smolic, Aljoscha and Gross, Markus booktitle : Computer Graphics Forum ISSN/ISBN : editor : publisher : publ.place : volume : 32 issue : language : keywords : abstract : DuctTake is a system designed to enable practical compositing of multiple takes of a scene into a single video. Current industry solutions are based around object segmentation, a hard problem that requires extensive manual input and cleanup, making compositing an expensive part of the film-making process. Our method instead compos- ites shots together by finding optimal spatiotemporal seams using motion-compensated 3D graph cuts through the video volume. We describe in detail the required components, decisions, and new techniques that together make a usable, interactive tool for compositing HD video, paying special attention to running time and performance of each section. We validate our approach by presenting a wide variety of examples and by comparing result quality and creation time to composites made by professional artists using current state-of-the-art tools.