Adobe Demonstrates Stunning Photo Deblurring Technology

[unlikelykiller]

Reminds me of the Magic Fill Adobe showed low res videos of their intelligent fill tool which isn't anywhere near as good as the video made it out to be.

 

[shady28]

They're 3 years behind the curve. See here:

http/www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~leojia/projects/motion_deblurring/index.html

 

[hawkwindeb]

[citation][nom]shady28[/nom]They're 3 years behind the curve. See here:http/www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~leojia [...] index.html[/citation]
Yes even with themselves to some degree:

They are touting this as something completely new when it is not new - better, much better almost a day and night better, but not new.

Photoshop Elements 7 from 2008 (ver 10 was released this month) has a feature to somewhat help fix motion blur. It does not compute the direction of the motion automatically, since you have to enter the direction in the Adjust Sharpness dialog box. There is an "Angle" adjustment that can tell Elements the angle of the motion, but is a single direction. It is far from perfect. I just tried this feature from a photo I took in which I moved the camera trying to stay in a straight line when the shutter was open. It did improve the image but did not fix it as much as the video.

However it sure would be cool to just have Photoshop be told there is a motion problem (as in the video), and then it figures the angle or angles (since most are not a single linear direction but many directions combined - also shown in video) and just fix the image.

Can't wait until this newer ver of this feature is released and then trickles down to the Elements version, which is the only one I can afford.

 

[Guest]

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[dalauder]

The [citation][nom]TunaSoda[/nom]The definition is not in the photo for this to work, I call BS[/citation]Blurred photos do contain the exposure data necessary to refine the image drastically. The problem is determining which elements of the image were captured earlier or later during the exposure. A "smart" system might be able to take a portion of the luminescence and hue from one area (set of pixels) and apply that where it is believed to belong, restoring some of the clarity. But I imagine this would be very CPU intensive.

It's not like blowing something up--if you could give the computer the exact path the camera took during the exposure, it should be able to deblur nearly perfectly. I imagine this tool should be implemented with manual control for distance and direction of blur as an option because humans might be better at detecting that.

 

[anony2004]

[citation][nom]nbraybrook[/nom]You failed to mention that adobe did this on a synthetically blurred image. Meaning its not real camera blur or shake but a photo they doctored. So you have to wonder how good it really works. Hopefully amazing, but thats pretty shitty of adobe...[/citation]

I don't think Adobe is that dumb to show off 'fake' deblurrings as they obviously are targeting real customers who eventually are going to find out the truth.