Turning video clips to still images (images)
Microsoft researchers have come up with some pretty neat tricks for turning rather so-so video clips into some pretty decent still images. Here's a look.
Hazy Mount Rainier
This is a typical hazy image of Washington's Mount Rainier. However, Microsoft researchers have found a pretty unique way to cut through the fog.
At this week's TechFair in Mountain View, Calif., Microsoft researcher Neel Joshi showed a technique that uses video clips and burst-mode photography to create surprisingly sharp still images and panoramas from a blurry source.
A little less hazy, but now grainy
This is what a typical photo-editing program might be able to do to remove the fog from a hazy image of Mount Rainier.
Click on the next photo to see what Microsoft Research was able to do using a video clip of that same hazy view.
Much clearer
By using just a short video clip of the hazy mountain, researchers were able to come up with a surprisingly sharp image.
ready to jump
Capturing moments like jumping off a cliff can be difficult, making one more likely to take a video instead.
Using video to capture the moment
Researchers show how a pretty dramatic still of the jump can be created using the video.
Microsoft's Building 99
This panorama of Building 99, home to Microsoft Research, was created from a rather wobbly video pan of the building.
Cranes?
These cranes are hard to see in the still image.
That's more like it
However, the cranes and the background come into better view when the image is de-hazed and de-noised from a variety of frames taken out of a video.
Seattle, through the fog
Here's a typical shot of downtown Seattle, fog and all. Click the next photo to see what Microsoft researchers were able to do to clear things up a bit.
Clearing Seattle's sky
Once again, using the multi-image method, researchers are able to remove much of the fog from the shot.
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