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Adobe shows amazing unblur prototype filter at Adobe MAX 2011

Adobe shows amazing unblur prototype filter at Adobe MAX 2011

The video speaks for itself:

What you’re seeing is a demo at Adobe Max 2011 that showed off the power of an as-yet-unannounced Photoshop filter that figures out the motion trajectory of the camera during the time the shutter was opened, and uses that information to reconstruct a sharp version of a blurry photo.

There’s no word on whether this will show up in Photoshop CS 6 or beyond. Rest assured, when it does, it will sell copies of the software.

Comments

  1. shwaip
    shwaip neat, but all the point spread functions were pretty simple (curves that don't overlap).

    Still quite impressive - I've never seen something like this that doesn't need to know the PSF in advance. Once you have the PSF, it gets much easier.

    This also only works well when noise is minimal, otherwise the deconvolution step ends up doing weird things with the noise.

    edit:

    This also assumes that the motion is in translation, rather than rotation which will do weird things to the PSF at different distances from the camera.
  2. photodude
    photodude I hope they make this part of Camera Raw for CS6 and LR4, so we can apply it as part of initial editing.

    I see this also becoming part of the video editing tools, and for cleaning up scanned documents (PDF) for OCR recognition.
  3. Billy (@3sixteenweb) As an average consumer photographer of my family. There are time I have that great shot only to delete it because of blur. Don't understand all the science behind it, but boy is it cool and would be totally worth it.
  4. waylan what. the.

    this video could have used some un-blur...

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