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Microsoft Tech Can Deblur Images Automatically

Posted by timothy on from the pleasantly-awesome dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At the annual SIGGRAPH show, Microsoft Research showed new technology that can remove the blur from images on your camera or phone using on-board sensors — the same sensors currently added to the iPhone 4. No more blurry low light photos!"

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  1. Enhance by TheSwampDweller · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enhance!

    1. Re:Enhance by bl4nk · · Score: 5, Funny

      You forgot to include the link to the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

    2. Re:Enhance by g2devi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, that's a Alpha version. The production version is demonstrated here:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU

  2. Re:lol yea sure by Helios1182 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft Research puts out a lot of really interesting and successful research. They aren't the people programming the OS or office applications.

  3. Re:lol yea sure by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably only half-working coming from microsoft

    It could be worse... the GIMP developers could have built it, in which case it would be a mostly working implementation of half the features of some existing software. However, nobody would realize this since only the developers would be able to comprehend the UI.

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  4. Frankencamera. by Greger47 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Step back! This is a job for Frankencamera. Run it on your Nokia N900 today.

    OTOH having that Arduino board and a mess of wires attached to your camera does score you a lot more geek cred than photographing using an plain old mobile phone.

    /greger

  5. MicroSoft is impressive at SIGGRAPH by peter303 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For the past 8 years or so, MicroSoft has been co-author on more papers than any other organization at SIGGRAPH. This is impressive because SIGGRAPH has a the highest paper rejection rate of any conference I know of - they reject (or downgrade to non-published session) 85% of the paper submissions. And you have to submit publication-ready papers nearly a year in advance, with a video summary.

    This reminds me of Xerox PARC - great R & D output, poor commercialization of these results. People wonder if their lab was a toy-of-Bill or a tax write-off.

  6. Now they just need to attach this to Ballmer's by melted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now they just need to attach this to Ballmer's head to deblur the company vision a little.