This post has been republished via RSS; it originally appeared at: Microsoft Research. The amount of visual data we accumulate around the world is mind boggling. However, not all the images are captured by high-end DSLR cameras, and very often they suffer from imperfections. It is of tremendous benefit to save those degraded images so that users can reuse them for their own design or other aesthetic purposes. In this blog, we are going to present our latest efforts in image enhancement.

The amount of visual data we accumulate around the world is mind boggling. However, not all the images are captured by high-end DSLR cameras, and very often they suffer from imperfections. It is of tremendous benefit to save those degraded images so that users can reuse them for their own design or other aesthetic purposes. In this blog, we are going to present our latest efforts in image enhancement. The first technique enhances the image resolution of an image file by referring to external reference images.