High-res Video using Still Photos

Researchers from University of Washington have developed a technique to drastically enhance video clips using high-res photos taken of the same scene.

The technique can be used for several image enhancements including; fixing exposure, bringing in lost details, enhancing colors and depth, removing camera shakes, adding image data or completely eliminating objects from a scene.

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It is all very amazing.

(via Motionographer)

Comments

Jeton - Jul. 21, 2008

That is really impressive.

I think the movie industry needs to talk with these researchers.

Jonathan - Jul. 21, 2008

Fascinating stuff this. I love the step in their process that they call "spacetime fusion" (I'd give you the timestamp but you don't show that).

Thomas Baekdal - Jul. 21, 2008

Jeton, they should

Jonathan, Now I do (showing timestamps - just added it). And space-time fusion is cool.

Charlie - Jul. 23, 2008

wow - this is amazing stuff! its a very clever piece of joined up thinking - well explained too.

Ali Servet Dönmez - Jul. 24, 2008

Wow! These stuff definitely has to be in every video editing software out there...

alex - Aug. 13, 2008

all your effects with stabilization, reflections and changing pictures already existed. never heard of monet, syntheyes or ???

the new stuff is the thing about images + video. the rest already exists and is better than your implementation

ichbins - Oct. 3, 2008

alex, yes those effects all exists, but they work in an entirely different way. here things like the masks on the photos are all automatically adapted. and please tell me one software that creates the stylization effects in the last scenes in the same quality, all do it by doing it per frame and just adapting their seed. also the ease of object removal is unmatched.