Thursday, August 31, 2006

Binary-coded Shutter for Deblurring Still Images

Researchers at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) have developed a new filter system for digital cameras. The Coded Exposure Photography: Motion Deblurring using Fluttered Shutter uses a shuttering technique that effectively applies a binary-encoded timing filter over a continuous sequence of images.

Full Paper (PDF)

Very nice results. It will be nice to see this, or something similar, introduced in consumer camera.