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Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011
karthikmns writes with word of an amazing demo presented last week at Adobe's annual MAX convention. You'll have to watch the video, but the enthusiastic crowd reaction seems genuine (or at least justified), even in an audience full of Photoshop enthusiasts, as photographs are algorithmically deblurred. (Maybe in the future, cameras will keep records of their own motion in metadata to assist such software efforts, rather than relying on in-built anti-shake software.) No word about when this will turn up for consumers in anything besides demo form, but I suspect similar software's already in use at Ft. Meade and Langley.
I'd be able to see the demo!
How hard can it be, I mean, they've been doing it in movies since at least the 80s. Hell even the $500 dell desktop on CSI:miami can do it.
"we've got a convenience store video feed of the getaway car, the camera was recording in 480i from 300 yards away"
"can you sharpen it up a little?"
"sure. one moment... ok got it. License plate is california JGL-711. Ok just a bit more... yeah, looks like registration expires march 2012. Wait, let me clean it up some more, yeah it looks like there's a small identifying scratch on the trunk lid about a half inch long shaped like a boomerang. Oh wait, this is the new version of the software, let me zoom in a bit further, yeah I'm pretty sure I'm seeing loose skin cells on the edge of the trunk lid, maybe our missing person is in the trunk!"
"good work, now where's my sunglasses?"
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh!