Last week, it was_reconstructing sound using tiny vibrations on objects — this week’s science wow comes from Microsoft Research, which showed off a technology that turns shaky first-person video into beautifully smooth timelapse footage. The growth of wearable video cameras — from Google Glass to GoPro and more — has led to a boom in first-person videos, most of which are overly long and uneventful. When you speed them_up into to timelapse video, however, they can become more palatable and entertaining, but a person’s movement means_the footage is rarely steady. That problem is exacerbated when videos are_accelerated. Until now, perhaps....
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