With the increase in popularity of stereoscopic 3D imagery for film,
TV, and interactive entertainment, an urgent need for editing tools
to support stereo content creation has become apparent. In this paper
we present an end-to-end system for object copy & paste in a
stereoscopic setting to address this need. There is no straightforward
extension of 2D copy & paste to support the addition of the
third dimension as we show in this paper. For stereoscopic copy &
paste we need to handle depth, and our core objective is to obtain
a convincing 3D viewing experience. As one of the main contributions
of our system, we introduce a stereo billboard method for
stereoscopic rendering of the copied selection. Our approach preserves
the stereo volume and is robust to the inevitable inaccuracies
of the depth maps computed from a stereo pair of images. Our system
also includes an interactive stereoscopic segmentation tool to
achieve high quality object selection. Hence, we focus on intuitive
and minimal user interaction, and our editing operations perform
within interactive rates to provide immediate feedback.