POV Hyperlapse

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Though GoPro has made an amateur videographer out of everyone, the fact is, nobody wants to watch your hour-long POV video. To make these films digestible—and enjoyable—a new Microsoft Research project has introduced hyperlapse, a software system that uses an algorithm to reconstruct the scenes and effectively blend frames at 10 times the speed of the original video, and without any shaking.

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1. Seeing is Hearing MIT engineers have developed a technique to “listen” to sound without the use of a microphone—audio can be recovered just from video by analyzing how an inanimate object (such as a bag of chips or a plant’s leaves) responds to sound vibrations. This means combining and filtering movements as small as 1/1000th of a pixel to retrospectively piece back conversations that …

Seeing is Hearing

Super-fluffy pancakes, inflatable concrete, Baroque photojournalism and more in our look at the web this week

MIT engineers have developed a technique to “listen” to sound without the use of a microphone—audio can be recovered just from video by analyzing how an inanimate object (such as a bag of chips or a plant’s leaves) responds to sound vibrations. This means combining and filtering movements as small as 1/1000th of a pixel to retrospectively piece back conversations that took place near the …