During the video capture process, a certain amount of blurring is introduced due to the low-pass nature of the optical system and video compressor. Ikena uses a special deblurring filter (bilateral total variation) that is able sharpen images without the typical increase in noise seen with edge sharpening or unsharp mask. A standard unsharp mask is also available.
Ikena can deinterlace interlaced video, which could include MPEG2- encoded files from a DVD, or MPEG-encoded videos from security cameras. MotionDSP's deinterlacing uses super-resolution techniques to extract extra information from the two interlaced fields, treating each field as a separate frame, allowing Ikena to accurately fuse those fields into a single progressive image, without artifacts.
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