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.
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.
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Much clearer
By using just a short video clip of the hazy mountain, researchers were able to come up with a surprisingly sharp image.
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ready to jump
Capturing moments like jumping off a cliff can be difficult, making one more likely to take a video instead.
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Using video to capture the moment
Researchers show how a pretty dramatic still of the jump can be created using the video.
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Microsoft's Building 99
This panorama of Building 99, home to Microsoft Research, was created from a rather wobbly video pan of the building.
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Cranes?
These cranes are hard to see in the still image.
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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.
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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.
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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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