Saturday, August 16, 2008

Amazing Research in Image Processing and Presentation

I recently stumbled upon a very interesting pair of research projects that started at the University of Washington.

The first is titled, Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene. The video toward the bottom of the screen demonstrates using still images to automatically enhance the resolution, lighting, and color of videos, along with the ability to mask sections of scene and replace them with substitute images.

The second project has been picked up by Microsoft Labs and further developed into Photosynth (unfortunately requiring a Windows-only browser plug-in). It allows you to view a set of images of the same subject in a 3-D browser. See this very cool video for several examples.

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