As a timelapse photographer, I need this feature so much!
Birds suddendly appear in different parts of the frame & look like rubbish in the final video.
I know some tricks in AE/Pr how to remove them fast with the Lighten blend mode by duplicating the same footage and moving it 1 frame forward, but it doesn't always work perfectly. It often gives artifacts.
Being a perfectionist, I do it manually frame by frame in PS with the Spot Healing brush.
Can you imagine how time consuming it is? 300-500+ images to clean... At sunrise the birds wake up and are very active. Almost the same thing with the sunsets. That's why I need the feature like the content aware birds removal. I'm sure it would be also useful for amateurs and landscape photographers.
How should it work?
The filter should automatically detect birds and remove them like the Content aware fill. You already have the algorithm that selects the sky, just teach it to find the darkest lonely dots there and remove them. That's it.
Alternatively, it could work like this: we select several frames for clean up and the filter analyzes (compares) them. The birds are always contrasting with the sky, so it wouldn't be a problem to exactly detect them. Besides, the neighboring timelapse shots are very similar to each other, the birds move much faster than the clouds.
P.S. I can even provide a few timelapse series (hundreds of shots) to train your algorithms. 🙂
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