NEC Lives The Fine Magnification Dream
With Adobe's PhotoBlur, one Sci-Fi dream realized and the second one comes already with NEC Corporation announcing the development of super-resolution technologies for fine magnification of surveillance camera images. Yes, this includes persons' faces and license plates.  Until now a decent magnification from surveillance cameras required numerous still images from a video in order to improve a subject's resolution, but this would too only provide blurred images after magnified 2 to 3 times.
NEC's new technology creates a super-resolution image from just one shot of a subject, by employing a database of categorized images. This allows images to maintain their fine details without losing any property and hence paving way for better magnification with distinguishing features which is seldom found in conventional technologies.
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The technologies involved in this process first form a library of images for subjects that are used to carry out super-resolution processing of images. In case of varied sizes for each subject, the library makes space for a variety of resolutions out of which the best resolution image is selected. For situations which engage large data sets of images, a smaller size of images can be filtered on a number of parameters utilizing a variety of equipment. Also, the library is checked from time to time for redundant images. In case obsolete images are found, they are quickly eliminated, keeping the library as small as possible without compromising on image quality.
Apart from surveillance cameras, NEC has targeted these technologies into a broad range of fields, including the enhancement of satellite and medical images. Enhance, I say!
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NEC's new technology creates a super-resolution image from just one shot of a subject, by employing a database of categorized images. This allows images to maintain their fine details without losing any property and hence paving way for better magnification with distinguishing features which is seldom found in conventional technologies.
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The technologies involved in this process first form a library of images for subjects that are used to carry out super-resolution processing of images. In case of varied sizes for each subject, the library makes space for a variety of resolutions out of which the best resolution image is selected. For situations which engage large data sets of images, a smaller size of images can be filtered on a number of parameters utilizing a variety of equipment. Also, the library is checked from time to time for redundant images. In case obsolete images are found, they are quickly eliminated, keeping the library as small as possible without compromising on image quality.
Apart from surveillance cameras, NEC has targeted these technologies into a broad range of fields, including the enhancement of satellite and medical images. Enhance, I say!
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