Cable And Igor's adventures: The Not So Invisible Mercedes

At 51 seconds into this promotional video about an Invisible Mercedes, Cable And I  decided to extract a small scene and see if we could entirely remove the Mercedes from that scene and detect its appearance. First, let's check the ad clip:

 
 and here is the Robust PCA decomposition using Godec in slow motion (take a look at the image on top right side)
    and in normal speed 

No need for complex image processing, just advanced Matrix factorization,  Mission Accomplished !

If you want to see more of Cable and Igor's adventures in Advanced Matrix Factorization, check these entries out.

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