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  • surveillance video for license plate?

    Posted by Mike Garcia on May 16, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    There was a car theft and I have the surveillance video not only capturing the entrance of the car involved but also a close up of him leaving,
    plus a picture of his face. I have tried to get a license plate from the video and have gotten pretty close…

    This is a picture of a close up of just the license plate…

    by adding a lot of filters myself I have gotten really close but these are just some screen shots of his texas plates.

    Nigel O’neill replied 15 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Danny Hays

    May 16, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    Other than Enhancement programs or plugins, You can’t get data that ins’t there. Topaz Enhance for AE is one of thee better ones and I don’t think your going to get the plate number from this video. Defently not in Vegas.

  • Nigel O’neill

    May 17, 2011 at 2:38 am

    I wonder what image enhancement technology is used on CSI and similar ‘criminal investigation’ TV programs? lol

    Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

  • Danny Hays

    May 17, 2011 at 3:03 am

    I believe some of that is just clearer video, edited to look bad at first for the show. Soome enhancers can actually add pixels based on adjasent pixels and interpolate what it thinks they should be. They can work to some degree but your tag is very blurry, not enough info in my opinion. I’d like to hear Im wrong and see some one do it though.

  • Nigel O’neill

    May 17, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Mike

    Someone once suggested to me about using Sorensen Squeeze to ‘upscale’ VHS video. I tried it, and some of the sharpening filters did help, but I also got similar results with NeatVideo which was cheaper.

    Your image source is pretty poor quality to begin with, and if the data is not there, there is very little that can be done. I’d love to be proven wrong.

    Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

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