Amazing Video Enhancement Technology

Researchers at the University of Washington recently released a video showing a series jaw-drapping video enhancements now possible using various image analytic and modeling techniques. In one demo of interest, simply by mixing a few high-resolution photographs of a scene with a lower quality video stream, the scientists were able to dramatically enhance the quality and resolution of the complete video...by 4x.

The technology could also be used to seemlessly remove private content from surveillance video, truely making proctected images of people or objects invisible. That's probably welcome news to some, but disconcerting to law enforcement professials who already have significant concerns about the reliablity of photos presented them. Video has been generally thought of as much harder to manipulate...no more.