MotionDSP launches vReveal tool to clear up blurry home movies
Everybody has blurry, unfocused, and motion-sickness inspiring home videos. But Silicon Valley company MotionDSP is launching a video restoration software program today that could help fix that.
The company’s vReveal software can automatically fix movies so they look more professional. It uses graphics computation to smooth out movies with shaky motion, lighten dark videos and otherwise reduce noise. And you can run the process with a single click.
The video enhancement technology taps a computer’s graphics chip…. Continue Reading
Nvidia invests in MotionDSP’s video-fixing technology
We all take lousy, grainy, and jerky videos. And then we upload them to YouTube to torture our friends with the poor video quality.
But MotionDSP has a “video restoration” technology (see our coverage, which has demos) that can fix all that.
Dubbed FixMyMovie, it can take grainy and jerky video and turn it into smooth video with four times better resolution. Over time, the technology can consume a lot of graphics horsepower as it improves its… Continue Reading
Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups
I can remember the first interview I did with Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, back when the company was coming out of stealth in 1995. Since 3-D games didn’t exist back then, Huang described his graphics chip as the ideal “Windows accelerator.” And if you remember those days, Windows needed a lot of help. Then came no less than 50 3-D graphics startups. They all came and went. Nvidia remains.
The company’s newest cell phone… Continue Reading
CIA venture arm invests in video improvement company, MotionDSP
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the nation’s intelligence services, has invested an undisclosed small amount of money into video enhancement company MotionDSP and also awarded it with contracts.
MotionDSP chief executive Sean Varah wouldn’t say what the CIA wants do with the technology. However, he said the investment lends credibility to the company’s technology, which was dismissed by Google during a pitch last year when Google told Varah that Google could something similar without MotionDSP’s help…. Continue Reading