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Super-res results


This enhanced image of the rock called Rindstone...


super-res-4-result.jpg (109K)

is the result of combining 25 nearly-identical images taken by the IMP camera, using a technique called super-resolution developed at NASA Ames Information Sciences Division by Peter Cheeseman, Bob Kanefsky, Robin Hanson, and John Stutz.

A typical input image, scaled up by a factor of five with the pixels interpolated so so it's blurry rather than blocky, looks like this:


super-res-4-input.jpg (186K)

Here's the input image expanded normally so you can see how coarse the pixels are:

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