[opendtv] Re: Superior SD video blowup to HD through bandelets
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 10:51:35 -0400
This would be very cool for DTV if the claims are true. Most HDTV
stations automatically upconvert all SD material to their preferred
1080i or 720p formats in a way that mostly looks like crap on a large
screen display.
It would be nice if something better was used.
- Tom
Olivier Houot wrote:
> A good point for legacy material...
> Those algorithms are provided by a french startup called Let it wave :
>
> http://www.letitwave.com/
>
> It has apparently obtained very favourable comments from Yves Faroudja
> himself, according to this article :
> http://gear.ign.com/articles/701/701720p1.html
>
> Hardware implementation on Altera FPGAs are available :
> http://www.dsp-fpga.com/news/db/?2631
>
> Bandelets are a derivative of wavelets. Interestingly , one of the creators
> of the company,
> Stephane Mallat, is a man whose name will appear in any book retracing the
> history of
> wavelet theory, so he must know what he is talking about.
>
> They also do image restoration for seismic, satellite or medical stuff, and
> image compression (down to 500 bytes for an Id photo with very acceptable
> quality, see the demo on their home page.
>
> No way to try it on your PC, though, as they want to keep control on their
> product and will not spread it over the internet.
>
>
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