Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Editor's Pick: Researchers Finagle Sound From Silent Video


Richard Adhikari
08/06/14 10:17 AM PT
Researchers from MIT, Microsoft and Adobe have developed an algorithm to extract audio information from video footage. They recovered intelligible speech from a video of a potato chip bag that was shot at a distance of 15 feet behind soundproof glass. The team also obtained useful audio signals from videos of aluminum foil, the surface of a glass of water, and the leaves of a potted plant. [More...]

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