Super resolution enhancement of Wikileaks surveillance challenge video
Hand picked 8 unique frames from MPEG-2 video source, extracted full size uncompressed PNG images using FFMPEG. The 8 frames were within the video timestamp range of 00:28:01 to 00:28:03 where there seemed to be the best visual clarity of the page and only translational motion of the page.
The MATLAB code used was pulled from MATLAB Central and implemented a video super-resolution algorithm described in a recent journal article.
I modified the code to directly read in grayscale PNG images and simply let it run using default parameter settings (hr=255.0 and h=0.5). The supplied MATLAB code also implements a median filter near the end, which I left in and tends to remove some of the video salt and pepper noise.
Honestly, there is little to be recovered by super-resolution techniques in this situation due to the lack of translational motion that super-resolution techniques thrive on. Most of the motion is not simple linear motion, but more like rotation and bending of the pages which are not well handled by most super-resolution algorithms. However, a custom algorithm could easily be written for this challenge problem, and there are many weeks remaining before the end of the contest.
Others can probably do a better job reading the actual text, but what I see is this:
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The question marks are not meant to count letters, only to serve as an approximate placeholder for a word I cannot make out.
For real though?!?