Amateur video enthusiasts may be excited to know that a new and improved method of editing video — one where unwanted images can easily be cropped or blurred images made clearer — has been developed, the National Science Council (NSC) said yesterday.
At a press conference, the council touted the results of a three-year project led by National Tsing Hua University’s (NTHU) Department of Electrical Engineering associate professor Lin Chia-wen (林嘉文) that it sponsored.
The team had also created a new wireless video transmission technology that prevents users from receiving choppy video images on their mobile phones, even in bad weather or in compromised environments, Lin said.
Using “intelligent digital scissors” Lin’s team has created software that traces a moving object in a video and either crops it or enhances it.
Showing the press conference a video of somebody swimming across a pool, Lin showed that, after editing, the swimmer “completely disappears” from the original video.
“The breakthrough in this technology is that it is able to process complex and moving backgrounds, which previous software couldn’t do,” Lin said.
In addition to editing, Lin’s team also had success in improving digital image transmissions.
“Wireless transmission is often interrupted by static, poor weather conditions and other environmental factors,” Lin said.
That agony could be eliminated in the future by the team’s video feed protection technology, a system that protects digital image frames so that they are not lost in transmission, Lin said.
“Even if the protection fails, using the previous and following frames, the software can conjure content that would smoothly fill in the gap, so that the viewer does not feel that he or she missed something,” he said.
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