People often laugh and poke fun at the cliche of impossible image enhancements seen in TV shows and movies, but you won’t be laughing when you see what SmartDeblur can do — you’ll be gawking in amazement. Created by programmer and image processing expert Vladimir Yuzhikov, the program can magically reveal details in photographs that are blurry due to poor focusing or shaky hands. It’s powered by a number of deconvolution algorithms invented by image researchers.
Here’s what the program looks like when you open it up:
The process is simple. First, you choose the defect type that you’re working with: out of focus, motion blur, or Gaussian blur. Next, you drag the Radius slider until the details you want come into focus. Finally, you drag the Smooth slider until you arrive at your desired quality.
In the screenshot above, the program is loaded with a sample photograph of words printed on a piece of paper — a photograph that’s so out of focus that none of the words are legible. Here’s what the program can recover from that photograph:
The program magically makes the text in the blurry photograph readable.
We still haven’t seen that technology appear in the wild, but Yuzhikov’s is. It’s available as a free download for Windows over at GitHub. Go ahead, give it a shot on your own photographs and let us know how it performs!
Read more at http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/21/smartdeblur-does-science-fiction-esque-enhancing-on-blurry-photos/#k98tFQgjer1eyAPG.99
Via PetaPixel
