A software to turn blurred photos into clear images
LONDON: A team of engineers has
developed software that can transform blurry photographs into clear
pictures.
Computer vision engineer Neel Joshi at the University of
California, San Diego, and his colleagues studied home photo collections and saw
that many pictures of faces were blurry. "Precious moments were often lost due
to blur induced by camera shake and poor lighting," the New Scientist quoted him
as saying.
The team then came up with software to solve that problem.
Their algorithm uses facial recognition methods like those in photo editors to
find a sharp image with a similar pose. The pattern of colour and light in the
blurry face is then tweaked to match the model photo.
Now, no more of
losing out on specials moments of life. This technology can also add colour and
shine to black and white pics. The study has been published in ACM Transactions
on Graphics.
