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Increasing Video Detail Using Super-Resolution?

Posted by Cliff on from the sharper-image dept.

Cecil Esquivel asks: "I'm looking for ways to increase the quality of video by using super-resolution algorithms which use the visual information across multiple frames of video to increase the resolution of individual frames. I have found very little on the web that can do this effectively for the entire length of video. There is commercial software, VideoFOCUS, which produces hi-res stills from video, but doesn't seem to have a product for producing hi-res video from video. There is a thesis from Duke U. which is 6 years old, monochrome only and is mostly proof of concept.) Anybody out there have more information or is willing to help me develop some software that can do this? Darwin/Mac OS X solution that can work with QuickTime DV, preferred." Typically, super-resolution uses image samples generated from low-resolution and high-resolution samples of the same source, which is then converted into source independent information that can be used to increase detail for other low resolution sources. Has anyone seen programs that use super-resolution techniques for increasing the resolution of your typical digital video clip?

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  1. Oh yea. I've seen this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is that cool shit that the NSA always uses in those thriller type movies and shit. You know the ones where the systems analyst in the back of the van types like a five letter command and the software knows which part of the picture he wants enhanced and zooms in and super resolution enhances that section of the picture and shit. They use is for stuff like zooming in on license plates from helicopters and shit. Also, they use it from satellites so that they can read the secret plan papers of the terrorists in the park and shit like that. It is really cool shit.

  2. Debunk yo mama. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You don't know what you are talking about. I seen this shit. It works real good. The software is like some advanced shit that knows what you want with just a few keystrokes and shit. The NSA boys just hit a few buttons and the picture turns all blocky and then like it zooms in and gets like real sharp and shit. I've seen it even if they say like they don't really have that and shit.