What if you could isolate & extract moving objects from video in nearly real time?
My Google colleague Yael Pritch worked with the Disney Research team that has now demoed how to remove noise & blur, increase resolution, make things disappear, and even clone moving objects. Check it out (and stick with it):
Fast Company provides an overview of the project, and you can read the paper here.
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Really nice work. Between that and the video from yesterday, it was making me think that, at least for non-action shots, in the “future”, instead of trying to hold really still to take a nice crisp picture, we may be just taking handheld video and then post-processing the crispness (and maybe DOF) into it.