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Video enhancement using reference photographs
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Original Article
Video enhancement using reference photographs
Cosmin Ancuti1 , Tom Haber1 , Tom Mertens1 and Philippe Bekaert1 
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Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Hasselt University – tUL – IBBT, Wetenschapspark 2, Diepenbeek, 3590, Belgium |
Published online: 29 May 2008
Abstract Digital video cameras are becoming commonplace in many households, but they still leave something to be desired in terms of
image quality. Their poor light sensitivity make images noisy and blurry, and internal storage bandwidth limits the frame
resolution. We present a technique for enhancing a low quality video sequence, using a set of high quality reference photographs,
taken of the same scene. Our technique generates a high quality frame by copying information from the photographs in a patch-wise
fashion. The copying is guided by a sparse set of reliable correspondences between the video frames and photographs. Our technique
is purely image-based, and does not require depth estimation. A robust descriptor is employed for establishing valid matches
between the video frames and the photographs. Then, the geometric transformation is estimated between every corresponding
patch. With only a few reference photographs, we are able to reduce noise and motion blur, and more important, increase resolution
by a factor of 6 (see Fig. 1).
Keywords Picture/image generation - Graphics utilities - Applications
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