Community for the H2020 project AutoPost to share public results and outcomes of the project.  AutoPost Website

AutoPost “Deformable Surface Tracking and Alpha Matting for the Automation of Postproduction Workflows” aims to improve the efficiency of labour-intensive VFX tasks by integrating state-of-the-art algorithms for natural video matting and deformable surface tracking into plugins for established postproduction platforms.

AutoPost Consortium is formed by five partners: Eurecat (coordinates), Fraunhofer HHI, imcube Labs, Moto and Digital Graphics. The goal of the project is to automate major parts of the daily workload in current post-production and VFX workflows , particularly for small and medium post houses and, with it, make post-production more efficient by reducing time-consuming and costly manual processing.

This objective will be achieved by bridging the existing gap between commercially-available post-production tools and state-of-the-art research in the domain of surface tracking and natural matting, alleviating the operator workload associated with additive and subtractive retouching and related tasks on material that lacks planning with respect to post-production requirements.

One of the key requirements is the applicability to general movie productions filmed without specific constraints (markers, availability of 3D-models, individual object layers, green screens, etc.), since they constitute most of the problematic, labour intensive footage encountered in daily post-production tasks of small and medium post-houses.

To ensure industry adoption, the tracking and matting algorithms will be integrated into a ready-to-market multi-platform plugin suite targeting 2D and 3D productions, visual effects and 2D/3D conversion. The tracking and matting plugins developed within the AutoPost project can be used in 2D and 3D post-production workflows for a large variety of visual effects including object manipulation, scene extension and appearance modification..