Thanks! Try it out and let me know what hit/missed. There are a surprising number of techniques for affecting IQ on iOS, so specific feedback is great.
Why do I have to sign up? Why is there need for a social network for this app, I just don't get it. It would have worked beautifully just as an isolated app. I actually would love to find great photos in my videos. I was really excited about the idea, but having to sign up and reading your privacy statement about getting all my video data made me delete the app.
Please someone make a copy of this without all the bullshit.
While you make a valid point (for some people), please try to be more civil.
Remember that a real person spent time & energy working on writing and releasing this app. You likely wouldn't say your last sentence to this person in real life, so please refrain from writing it here.
Just letting you know that I agree with this comment's point (though not its tone).
Could this be made available without all the social and sharing stuff? :)
Maybe after you build your user base you can open source it? (free for people like us but not jeopardizing your competitive advantage since you already have the network)
I don't see the point of this with newer generation cameras. Almost all drivers nowadays support the "photo burst" mode where you take a single photo and the driver gives you back X frames before and after the fact (at full resolution). I think Nokia calls it Perfect Shot
It may sound weird.. but these kind of tradeoffs work to our advantage. There are fundamental limits to performance, filesize, bandwidth that everyone has to deal with. The fact that it's such a high-dimensional space means we can find a niche and optimize for cases that current cameras are missing.
I have no idea if this app does this (I don't think it does; it seems to just detect motion blurred frames and discard those as good candidates), but you can actually pull a lot more detail/sharpness out using multi-frame super-resolution algorithms over a series of frames (even if there is movement from frame to frame) rather than just pulling the video codec data out for one frame.
We talk to people who totally do that. They're the perfect proto-users who get why this is useful.
The Vhoto app just makes that easier, and helps jump to interesting / distinct / clear frames. You can do it entirely by hand by trying to scrub to the right frame, but point of the app (and the computer vision algos behind it) is to make it easy and do most of the work for you.
[+] [-] cookingrobot|12 years ago|reply
By shooting a video instead of just one shot, you have a better chance of getting that perfect moment.
[+] [-] cookingrobot|12 years ago|reply
Would love to get your feedback! Both about what's there now in version 1, and where you would like to see this go in the future..
Thanks
[+] [-] ngokevin|12 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] vertis|12 years ago|reply
Great idea though.
[+] [-] Geee|12 years ago|reply
Please someone make a copy of this without all the bullshit.
[+] [-] apu|12 years ago|reply
Remember that a real person spent time & energy working on writing and releasing this app. You likely wouldn't say your last sentence to this person in real life, so please refrain from writing it here.
[+] [-] ipince|12 years ago|reply
Just letting you know that I agree with this comment's point (though not its tone).
Could this be made available without all the social and sharing stuff? :) Maybe after you build your user base you can open source it? (free for people like us but not jeopardizing your competitive advantage since you already have the network)
[+] [-] omtinez|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ipince|12 years ago|reply
Frame blurriness, faces and smiles, balance.. what else?
[+] [-] th0br0|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] cookingrobot|12 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] cookingrobot|12 years ago|reply
The Vhoto app just makes that easier, and helps jump to interesting / distinct / clear frames. You can do it entirely by hand by trying to scrub to the right frame, but point of the app (and the computer vision algos behind it) is to make it easy and do most of the work for you.
[+] [-] _zen|12 years ago|reply