Devang Patel  CSE 490CV   January 31, 2002

Godzilla came to town....

NASA came over with their satellites. They found Godzilla gone, but he apparently left the Taj Mahal in the path of his destruction

I clipped out a mask of godzilla from a movie frame using the Iscissors (intelligent scissors) programme we developed for our undergraduate Computer Vision course, under the instruction of Steve Seitz. In photoshop I pasted Godzilla and attached a layer mask to him. The layer mask makes everything in Godzilla's image transparent, except for what you want cut out (using Iscissors). Godzilla was covering part of Seattle, so I had to create a mask of one building in Seattle, pasted a new Seattle Image on top and attached the layer mask. A similar process was used for the Taj Mahal (I altered the color using photoshop so that it would fit in). If you'll notice, the Taj Mahal is at a different perspective than Seattle, so that is why it stands out.

Here are the images I used:

and here are the masks that accompanied them...