Subject: Re: Absolutely Perfect Predictions
From: Keith Morrison
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Ian Montgomerie wrote:
>>It might be able to get more information from adjacent frames
>>and use that in combination with what you described below.
>
> This is already possible. Motion-compensated deinterlacing with HD
> upsampling. However, the previous poster is right - you can't apply
> any reasonable image filtering techniques to make it look like it was
> actually shot in HD. The fine detail is lost, and there are harsh
> limits on how much of it you can interpolate back in (without
> tremendous advancements in AI and Arbitrary Computing Power (TM)).
What? You mean all those shows where they have an image that looks like it was shot on the equivalent of a 0.25 megapixel camera and
ten seconds of snazzy computing later they've extracted details at a resolution of about 0.5mm from about 300m away aren't realistic?
I am just shocked.
I'm waiting for a scene in any show where the Heroes are standing behind the computer tech looking at a screen.
"It's a blobby shape in the driver's seat."
"Can you blow it up?"
(Tech looks at speaker funny and shrugs.)
"O-kay. There you go. Now it's a big blobby shape in the driver's seat."