Super-resolution images from blurry snaps

[RoboticusMusic]

THAT WASN'T EVEN SCIENCE IT WAS PHOTOSHOPPE!!!

[liquidus2172]

maybe you can use this technology to upscale your 240p video to 1080p ¬¬

[xzacq]

1:0 to CSI fanboys

[scarface1567]

i wish i was a werewolf

[Ozzy0sbourne]

WTFHAX!!?!!?

[sidthemyth]

and the ring is a consequence of what exactly?! or what is that?

this shouldn't be viewed as an image, but rather some 3d or 4d thingy...

[akaalgorithm]

AWE inspiring!

I love it and the idea is so simple.

Is there software I can get for this?

Thanx so much for posting.

[artifactingreality]

To get that improvement they had to have 60 pictures of the moon all in slightly different positions. Not exactly practice.

[FoodCubes]

0:56 is a huge improvement in resolution.  This would be very useful for hardware limitations.

[jelleoelle]

No exactly super sharp. And drop the nonsense about the video not being able to show it. The fact that it doesn't even look sharp in the video, show how weak the result is. I tried out a lot of superresolution programs, and it's over all quite disapointing.

[migleycow]

480X480 isn't sharpest, but from 48X48 - aka super pixelated puny image? 100 times improvement in resolution is very nice, try finding one like that (and wanna post link to it for varification?) If not, STFU.

[danielodors]

@migleycow - hey, it's not exactly sharp. I could interpolate the pixels to make the moon the size of a wall while loosing the pixelated look, but that doesn't mean it would be a million times improved or sharper. I do admit that it got sharper, but not sharp enough for the picture's size. So you can't just say it's "100 times improved" from the pixel difference. 5 times improved is a more realistic number. It's possible to get a (significantly) sharper image, but you need many more pictures.

[cyborgtroy]

Not that well resolved...

[mamolian]

Using this technique they went from a 50x50 sized picture to a 500x500 :P The video cant really show you the improvement.. check the website perhaps it shows more.

[Ichinin]

So someone figured out how to operate the antialias/sharpen filters in photoshop...

[newpip14]

I don't use photoshop, but I'm pretty sure that using antialias/sharpen does not combine 60 images into one. Perhaps you thought that they only took one low resolution image of the moon.

[buttface1202]

not only do you not understand how cameras work, but also fail to grasp photoshop as well. congratulations, you are really stupid.

[TravisMorien]

This technique has been around for a while. Do Google searches for the terms "astrophotography" and "webcam" and you'll see that plenty of amateur astronomers use this for planetary photography in particular, using modified webcams and readily available astronomy software.

[terser]

What?! Who gave that a thumbs down, he's completely right.

[j1mb0jones]

My only worry is that this is software modified imagery and as such subject to errors that might be accepted as correct in research using similarly modified imagery and slowly distort calculations based on deduced information that was inaccurate, however minor (in a similar way to errors in a floating point chips calculations might be miniscule but have a much greater effect over deductions made using these figures).

[alejo0823]

I think the information its not deducted but its an average of all 60 images

[j1mb0jones]

My worry's still there as there's still an inherent inaccuracy however small.

[alejo0823]

since images are to be observed by human eye the small inaccuracy wont matter but if you are planning to land in the moon an SLR camera would not be a good choice to pick a landing zone

[badbuddhist]

This is kinda like when they take a bunch of photos of average looking people, combine them, and the result is 'someone' who looks beautiful ('someone' in quotes because that person does not exist). Basically, flaws get cancelled out when averaging.

[BamBoom01]

Wrong... averaging only removes noise, but it doesn't remove blur and doesn't increase resolution (48px->480px)

[BamBoom01]

... to me that super-resolution stuff looks different to simple averaging (in response to badbuddhist and alejo0823)

[archaedemos]

so let me be a dumby, the moon does not rotate?? on its own axis? as the image would indicate?

[LukeSkyscraper]

Good question, it does indeed rotate on it's own axis. In fact it rotates once every 27 days 7 hours and 43 minutes. The same time it takes to orbit the earth. The net effect is that as it revolves around the earth it's own rotation is such that the same side is always presented to the earth.

[archaedemos]

i gotta say that is So Damn Coincidental, that it blows my mind about the universe.

[TravisMorien]

It isn't a coincidence, it's called "tidal locking". Basically the moon isn't perfectly spherical, and a bulge is attracted toward the Earth by their mutual gravity. The bulge always faces the Earth, and therefore we always see the bulge side.

[archaedemos]

ok so the Moon has a Bulge... hmm i guess that explains it.. but i still gotta wonder how the hell it got here/locked in like that (:

[massenergy]

Very nice. However, it would also require a technology that took 60 pictures in an instant. It might actually be cheaper to just implement higher resolution. However, I can see the advantages of this algorithm for various specific situations.

[PowerMetalDom]

To echo previous comments, the resolution hasn't improved all that much. Would be a hand thing to employ on our badly taken Christmas snaps though!

[Jmcenanly]

It might also be useful in obtaining better images from security cameras

[AwkwardSquad]

Not true, because you'll have to get numerous pictures of each moment. Security cameras don't shoot so many frames so fast.

[ladyboybassist]

wtf. no such thing as atomic bombs? so those videos or bombs going off are CG or sumthin? what did america drop on Nagasaki?

[britoca]

idiot

[trav10852]

... I thought that was obvious, I mean, I've been using Photoshop to combine blurry photos I've taken often to get slightly better quality. Nothing special.

[yubeaut]

But you say "slightly better quality". They improved resolution by a factor of 10x in both dimensions.

[charliepoli]

culo

[lisalovesthekillers]

cool

[magicbitch1995]

at 00:53 it looks like theres a face with sunglasses haha