Video Snapshots: Creating High-Quality Images from Video Clips

We describe a unified framework for generating a single high-quality still image (“snapshot”) from a short video clip. Our system allows the user to specify the desired operations for creating the output image, such as super-resolution, noise and blur reduction, and selection of best focus. It also provides a visual summary of activity in the video by incorporating saliency-based objectives in the snapshot formation process. We show examples on a number of different video clips to illustrate the utility and flexibility of our system.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: TVCG
• Authors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Neel Joshi, Sing Bing Kang, Michael F. Cohen, Hanspeter Pfister
• Keywords: Blur, Hardware, Output Image, Snapshot, TVCG 2012