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Y-Vladimir
SmartDeblur
C++2012–2022
Y-Vladimir / SmartDeblur

SmartDeblur

Restoration of defocused and blurred photos/images

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Restoration of defocused and blurred photos/images

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Where it is used

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-10-21 16:14:16 UTC to 2022-12-18 09:09:26 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

6 sources
jaclaz·Dec 18, 2022
There are tools that can "correct" both Gaussian and motion blur, as an example a car plate from low resolution video stills, example (commercial): http://smartdeblur.net/ before the above the author made a version which was free (but old link is now dead): https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads LEO's have access to a Commercial tool called Amped Five that is said to be very good at it: https://ampedsoftware.com/five
In Unredacter: Never use pixelation as a redaction technique
jaclaz·Jan 20, 2020
Not as much as you see on TV, of course, particularly the "zoom in" that you see there, but there are specific enhancers that sometimes do what appear like "miracles". If you want to test one, for "motion blur" (let's say the licence of a car driving away), get this (last freeware version): https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads And test it on the images here (actual test images from a reknowned Commercial vendor of a suite that is also for videos): https://articles.forensicfocus.com/2014/10/08/can-you-get-th...
In Options for Enhancing Video of a Burglary?
jaclaz·Sep 25, 2017
>So back to the blurry security camera footage of a license plate or a face. Sure, that "hash" can reliably tell you that it wasn't a sasquatch that committed the robbery, but it literally doesn't contain the data necessary to _ever_ prove it was the suspect in question, even if the techs _can_ prove that the suspect hashes to the image in the footage. For a face, sure, for printed text/license plates there are effective deblurring algorithms that in some cases may rebuild a readable image. A (IMHO good) software is this one (was freeware, now it is Commercial, this is the last freeware version): https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads You can try it (just for the fun of it) on these two images: https://articles.forensicfocus.com/2014/10/08/can-you-get-th... https://forensicfocus.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/out-of-foc... http
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s://forensicfocus.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/moving-car... For the first choose "Out of Focus Blur" and play with the values, you should get a decent image at roughly Radius 8, Smooth 40%, Correction Strength 0%, Edge Feather 10% For the second choose "motion Blur" and play with the values, you should get a decent image at roughly Length 14, Angle 34, Smooth 50%,
In PixelNN – Example-Based Image Synthesis
WestCoastJustin·Apr 18, 2013
These photos [0] seem better as you can click on the high-res option! I am only running linux but do you think the SmartDeblur program (Mac/Win) [3] would work here? Some cool examples [1] [2]. [4] seems like the best option for the SmartDeblur. [0] http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multip... [1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2221466/Smart... [2] http://en.paperblog.com/smartdeblur-will-work-magic-on-your-... [3] https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur [4] http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multip...
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