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Terka
7th June 2017, 17:31
hi, any ideas how become the Car License Plate to be readable?
https://files.fm/u/42gabfvc#_
:thanks:
MysteryX
7th June 2017, 18:09
I'm pretty sure this will require advanced image-recognition software. Once I had an interview with a company that was working on a software to do just that.

Even if you could read it in Avisynth, you'd need to get it as a string, and then what would you do with that string? Avisynth isn't well-suited for that kind of advanced image-processing task.
Terka
7th June 2017, 18:33
My friends car was hit by the driver. Thats why i need to read it.
MysteryX
7th June 2017, 19:26
Read it with your eyes?

If you can't read the plate yourself, don't expect any automation program to do it for you.

Your best luck is to play with photo enhancement software and applying various filters on it to try to get something readable. But that's photo editing, not video editing.

To increase the video resolution, SuperResXbr or SuperRes+NNEDI3 (https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172698) gives the best upscaling results, so that would be a good place to start.
johnmeyer
7th June 2017, 19:44
The artifacts obscure the information. If the video was higher bitrate it would have fewer artifacts and some recovery might be possible. As it is, the best you can do is go frame-by-frame and try to get a digit or two from one of the frames where the number and letters are not obscured by a fuzzy artifact.
MysteryX
8th June 2017, 02:01
Is there any way to predict and cancel encoding artifacts?

I guess it's possible, question is whether this has ever been implemented, and it probably could work on original sources and would lose its benefits on re-encoded videos.
videoh
8th June 2017, 02:20
It's S735920N. Give us a harder one.
Ghitulescu
8th June 2017, 09:26
Ask the producers of CSI and other pseudoSciFi, police-soap serials.
StainlessS
8th June 2017, 14:03
Ask the producers of CSI and other pseudoSciFi, police-soap serials.

Yep, no chance with what you got :(
Sharc
8th June 2017, 15:48
It's S735920N. Give us a harder one.
Oh s**t! Was it your car?
MysteryX
8th June 2017, 16:47
Ask the producers of CSI and other pseudoSciFi, police-soap serials.

Yes I've seen a link to a software where they could recover the shape and texture of the license plate screws from 2 pixels; but I don't have the link right now