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Comment on Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res bVideo/b by b…/b — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:46:00 +0000

[...] CrunchGear Â» Archive Â» NVIDIA teaming up with MotionDSP to clean up your v… wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt[...] that MotionDSP stuff we talked about a few weeks ago? No? Let me refresh your memory: it’sa process — extremely CPU [...] [...]

By: CrunchGear » Archive » NVIDIA teaming up with MotionDSP to clean up your video

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:31:11 +0000

[...] that MotionDSP stuff we talked about a few weeks ago? No? Let me refresh your memory: it’s a process — extremely CPU [...]

By: military » Blog Archive » Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res Video

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:04:43 +0000

[...] read more | digg story [...]

By: Advances in Military Technology | Rick Tech

Advances in Military Technology | Rick Tech — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:32:03 +0000

[...] advance in video security relies on software to increase the resolution of video footage. Motion DSP is releasing this technology to the civilian sector via the Web. Using frame comparison [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » MotionDSP Launches Military Grade Video Enhancement

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:17:53 +0000

[...] MotionDSP uses military grade video enhancement technology to improve the quality of low-grade footage from devices like mobile phones. The technology compares every frame in a video to find and replace missing pixels. We profiled the company in August and today they have launched their first product. Called Ikena, the offering is a B2B deal aimed at websites hosting consumer generated video content. The company offered a brief period of free public beta use, but that period is over now. [...]

By: Under the Radar » Blog Archive » MotionDSP brings clarity to photos and video

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:32:50 +0000

[...] Seen and Heard: TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington says, “Motion DSP is creating a simple web based interface that will significantly enhance low resolution camera phone video into surprisingly high quality stuff.” TechWeb reports: “The technology appeals to the venture capitalist community, given the huge explosion of user-generated video sites and the capability to take a 20- to 30-second video clip on a cellular phone and upload it to content sites, such as YouTube Inc. or News Corp.’s MySpace.com.” [...]

By: PROMAGO.de Gadgets » Blog Archive » Schlechte Kamera? Miese Videoqualität?

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:03:21 +0000

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By: 21talks

21talks — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:18:33 +0000

MotionDSP clears ugly pictures…

MotionDSP brings a very interesting technology on the go. Tweaking photos resolutions and make pictures brighter and clearer. The service will be free and will allow users to upload a video and download an enhanced version.
YouTube and others video-sh…

By: Joel's Corner

Joel's Corner — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:35:28 +0000

Converting low resolution videos into hi res….

I like to watch CSI and see how they zoom in those pictures to find what they are looking for. That’s impossible with static pictures, but a company is using military technology to convert low resolution videos into high resolution ones.
Very ni…

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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:52:49 +0000

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By: ME

ME — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:44:18 +0000

I forgot to mention the edge directed interpolation alchorithm.

Try to combine the above mentioned algorithms.

By: ME

ME — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:37:36 +0000

Moving pictures can be greatly enhanched by using some kind of a motion compensated smoothing algorithm. Motion compensation is used in most mpeg compressions. I was also thinking of deconvolution which can enhance blurry images but takes a lot of time to finish.

By: » Blog Archive » Video Super-Enhancement. Big Deal?

» Blog Archive » Video Super-Enhancement. Big Deal? — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:14:25 +0000

[...] TechCrunch recently posted on MotionDSP, the Alger Associates backed San Mateo starup using patented algorithms to enhance low quality video. After looking at Digg and TechCrunch comments, I think some people were missing the complexity of what MotionDSP was doing. MotionDSP is not just despeckling and cleaning up artifacts through anti-aliasing. MotionDSP is using pixel information from the other frames of the video to enrich the quality of the current frame. This works because as a low definition camera pans a scene, it picks up more visual information about the real world objects in each successive frame. Sean Varah, the CEO, told me that MotionDSP uses pixel information from up to as many as six frames to add information to the current frame. This yeilds a more accurate depiction of the object, as seen in the book shelf video, where you can now read the titles. The desktop version currently enhances one minute of video in ten minutes. Yes, there are some other competitors like Salient Stills and Cognitech, but these firms focus on generating still images for security applications. MotionDSP is focusing instead on the consumer market, hoping to etch out a niche enhancing notoriously low quality cell phone videos (they are currently providing some examples for a very large online video company). I see this really having some traction as online video becomes higher quality (YouTube doesn’t currently do the service justice). As to the threat of ever higher resolution phone cameras? Sean says you can’t just throw pixels at the problem because the size constraints will always hinder picture quality by forcing phones to have tiny apertures. MotionDSP can actually deliver even better results when they know the optics of your phone camera and when companies like Shozu make uploading video to the internet easier I see a company like MotionDSP poised to unlock all of that cell phone content. [...]

By: Stecki

Stecki — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:05:39 +0000

They seem to use the same technique that for example astronomers use to gain quality improvements for space imaging. I tried this myself a few years ago, directing a telescope with a webcam in its ocular at saturn and then capturing a few hundred frames. Looking at a single frame the quality is really poor. But calculating through hundreds of frames you really get pretty good images.

I used a software called Giotto: http://www.videoastronomy.org/giotto.htm

I never tried it outputting videos but I guess its kind of the same thing. So if you have slow moving or better almost static video, you can average out some frames and copy them above each other and thus improve video quality. The faster the movement is, the less optimized the result is.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:26:37 +0000

If you don’t believe what you see, you can submit a video to the guys over at MotionDSP with the following requirements:

User-test requirements
Short videos — under 1 minute in length
Video taken outdoors, or well-lit indoors.
Slow panoramas.
Video of people or things taken at 10-20 feet
Video you’re willing to release the rights for (ie: allow us to post on the web as part of the trial)
Send them in their original format (usually 3GP or 3G2 to video@motiondsp.com

Keep in mind the technology is under continuous development and refinement. I don’t think the YouTube videos neccessarily did the service justice, but of course I saw a demo on an HD plasma.

By: Aviran's Place

Aviran's Place — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:56:39 +0000

Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res Video…

Motion DSP is creating a simple web based interface that will significantly enhance low resolution camera phone video into surprisingly high quality stuff. It started off in 1998 as a U.S. military funded project at UC Santa Cruz. In January 2005, Prof…

By: TheNerdNews » Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res Video

TheNerdNews » Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res Video — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:51:21 +0000

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apoloni.com.br » Blog Archive » Video Anti-Aliasing Software — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:46:34 +0000

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By: Daddio

Daddio — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:37:32 +0000

Sounds like a similar process to that used by the old “Snappy” video snapshot device. It used multiple frames to gather additional information and could generate amazing resolution stills from regular video signals.

By: considerthis

considerthis — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:07:09 +0000

About the comment on kick-starting videoconferencing. I gotta point out that it was actually possible to produce a decent video stream on a modem in the nineties. The problem with videoconferencing is not a technological one. The problem with video conferencing is that the general population simply does not want to appear on live motion video. Actors on TV and in the movies have makeup and costume departments that make them look good on film and video and this is what people have been conditioned to expect when they see a person on a video. When you see yourself on camera without those benefits it can be embarrassing especially for people who are image conscious like teens who are supposed to be the ones to lead the way on this kind of technology. It’s simply not going to happen. It’s a fantasy that telecoms sell to shareholders every year so the promise will never go away as there is a financial incentive to make such promises; nonethless, it never will happen.

By: kevom

kevom — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:32:49 +0000

Bear in mind that this technology is only effective on static or slow-panning videos and is a processor-intensive task (hours), unless they follow the Riya approach (client side app). Anyway I think this is going to be a great solution, in the long run, when someone use this kind of algorithms at the encoding level and not just as a post-prod tool.

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res Video

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:29:48 +0000

[...] Motion DSP is creating a simple web based interface that will significantly enhance low res, camera phone video into surprisingly high quality stuff. It started off in 1998 as a U.S. military funded project at UC Santa Cruz. In January 2005, Professor Peyman Milanfar, the primary researcher behind the technology, co-founded Motion DSP.read more | digg story [...]

By: Dolphin

Dolphin — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:28:26 +0000

Mmm, I guess what they do is combine the pixels of several frames into a higher detail picture, and then paste that back in the original frames.
Some pretty impressive algorithms, but it will only help with video’s showing fairly static pictures I think, that’s why the one with the books shows so much improvement, the car ride is much less impressive, and fast moving things won’t be enhanced at all.
That sayd, it will allow you to make a high res picture with a low res phone, just by making a movie of the (Static) thing you want to make a picture of.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » スタートアップ企業、軍用技術を利用して低解像度ビデオの改善サービス開始へ — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:19:34 +0000

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By: StickiWidgets » Blog Archive » Low Quality Videos a Thing of the Past?

StickiWidgets » Blog Archive » Low Quality Videos a Thing of the Past? — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:19:34 +0000

[...] According to the report from TechCrunch, “Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res Video”, the company is anticipating a consumer beta release sometime this year. The software developed by MotionDSP compares multiple video frames and reconstructs them with improved clarity. However, the technology currently produces optimal results on still or slow moving videos. A web based interface will allow users to upload videos and then download the reconstructed videos. The company will also be targeting partnerships with video service providers like YouTube. [...]