Adobe MAX 2011 - Photoshop Image Deblurring sneak

Peter Elst0 HN recommenders · 2012–2018
1.8M views · demo · dated · Uploaded 2011-10-07

A six-minute clip of Adobe's MAX 2011 sneak peek showing a Photoshop prototype that removes motion blur from photos. The audience reacts with astonishment as blurry images become legible.

Linked as a memorable early demo of image deblurring whenever threads on image restoration or synthesis come up.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@planckscnst2012 · in “Restoration of defocused and blurred images”

Very impressive. It reminded me of a demo from Adobe at MAX 2011 that showed promising results; it was more focused on eliminating defects from real images to produce a more aesthetic result. [VIDEO]

@c122017 · in “PixelNN – Example-Based Image Synthesis”

The low resolution to high resolution image synthesis reminds me of the unblur tool that Adobe demoed during Adobe MAX in 2011. Here is the relevant clip if you're interested [VIDEO]

@jloughry2018 · in “A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64”

The audience reaction was great. It reminds me of a similar audience reaction in this video of motion kernel de-blurring in Adobe Photoshop from 2011 (at about 1:17 in the video) [VIDEO] Audience: "No way!" and "That's impossible!" and "How did it do that?"