Do you suffer from shaky hand photos?

 

We’ve all suffered from blurred images at times – whether nervously taking a photo of Lindsay Lohan coming out of the courthouse or standing on the pit wall at Le Mans as a motor roars past. You get the idea…

A research paper and prototype shown by Microsoft researchers last week at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles showed an interesting approach to rid us of much of this blurring. The team took a bunch of accelerometers, gyroscopes, Bluetooth radio and an Arduino controller to create a real-time stabilizer. The shaking is measured and then counteracted and the team claim is outperforms current methods. See for yourself on their mouseover-based image comparisons page.

If you’re so inclined, you can check out the science behind all this in the PDF or slides. also my images above don’t really do the technology justice so you can see High-Resolution Results

thanks to PC Mag for reminding me of this