What happened to the photograph + video project?

[880]

I recall a year ago there was an amazing project that would combine video with photographs to generate high-resolution video. The software to do it was released under the GPL. But I don't think anyone used it. Why not?

The demo video is at Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PktKqyRXIE

[stratocaster]

here's their web site
http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/

an alternative: an existing available commercial product:
http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/video_editing.html
http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/urban_modelling.html
http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/truck_unreal.html