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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2009
Luciano Sbaiz, Zurich, CH;
Luciano Sbaiz, Zurich, CH;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method generates super-resolution images and videos using motion-compensated low-resolution images and videos. An image is selected as a primary image from a plurality of low-resolution images and the rest of the low-resolution images are registered as secondary images with respect to the primary image. Each registered secondary image is transformed to a motion compensated image. A mask value for a pixel in each motion compensated image is estimated. The super-resolution image of the primary image is generated by combining the mask values and the motion compensated secondary images. Similarly, a low-resolution video is segmented into a plurality of video objects, each of which is represented by an alpha layer. A super-resolution frame of the segmented video object is generated. The super-resolution frames of each segmented video object are combined using the alpha layers to create a super-resolution frame of the resulting video.