Fixing video with Photographs
- August 15th, 2008
- 10 Comments
This system, by students at the University of Washington, uses still photographs or one single frame of a video scene to automatically improve video. The improvements are amazing. Video might contain artifacts like overexposure and low-resolution imagery and this system takes cues from still images of the scene to bring almost the entire video up to photographic quality. Can’t wait for this to hit our local point and shoot - in maybe five years.







lM ll lL lL S (Who am I?)
3 months ago
no way. i don’t believe it. that’s wicked crazy. especially the last one with the masking of the no parking sign. that doesn’t happen.
Chuck (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Frickin magic. That what I’m talkin about.
Ideally the high res photography camera and the video camera should be the same unit. Maybe taking a high res photo every second or two as a key frame while contiuously recording the video. Maybe even dynamically changing the rate of the High res camera dependent on the difference frame to frame.
Very cool. I wish I’d done it.
I think I also see that there technology is somewhat dependednt on side to side movement. I have made 3D movies out of 2D video using a similar technique.
Matt Huggins (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Wow, that’s insane! The parking sign one is pretty hard to believe, I’d have to see the software do it with my own eyes.
wow (Who am I?)
3 months ago
All I can say is
http://www.AnythingNothing.com
nicos (Who am I?)
3 months ago
I want it, I want it, I want it, NOW !
Esfandiar (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Once you are able to do the SFM (structure from montion) for the video and the picture and build the 3D, removing the poles and certain objects can actually be the easier part of the process (as long as you don’t have permanent occlusions).
As a complete system, this can have a major commercial impact on Hollywood and special effect for the movies. I particularly loved their (dynamic) texture mapping :-) Cut and paste 3D objects into each frame and… wow :-)
Cheers, E
Daniel (Who am I?)
3 months ago
That was without doubt the most amazing thing I have ever seen done with a video. Wow.
I wish this could get to the market sooner preferably now.
Daniel
panTribe (Who am I?)
3 months ago
This is revolutionary. CPU processing times are taking all the math out of filming.
Earl O'Mar
3 months ago
Absolutely revolutionary. However when I see this, I can’t help but to think about the abuse and purposeful deceptions that can be disseminated to the public. I recognize that the same capability exists with still photos, but video is always more convincing. Imagine this software being used on video from Iraq that would otherwise show the carnage of war?
Believe me, as a photographer I am eagerly awaiting a production release of this technology so I can improve the quality of my work. I simply anticipate the inevitable realities of it’s capabilities.
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Al (Who am I?)
2 months ago
The days of admissible video evidence are nearing their end.