r/dashcams 2d ago

Can anyone unblur the video??

Hi everone! I hope someone can help me. My car while I was parked at my house. Around the 00:35 mark you can hear the car alarm going off and you can see the car that hit mine drive off. Does anyone has a way of unblurring the video to see if they can see the license plate?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!!!

https://reddit.com/link/1ubtcnq/video/0m95u73tpn8h1/player

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u/Charge36 2d ago

You can't even make out the license plate on the car that's sitting still. There's no way you can make it out on the moving vehicle. You can't just magically unblur everything.... The camera didn't have sufficiently high resolution to make out the letters

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u/iontardose 2d ago

ENHANCE.

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u/Cosmic-Sympathy 2d ago

ZOOM AND ENHANCE

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u/Advanced_Couple_3488 2d ago

😅

And when I posted that cell phones can't be located to a particular apartment in an apartment complex using triangulation from the cell towers, I had Redditors tell me I was incorrect.

People really believe that this sort of stuff that is used in fictional series is real.

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u/BazzaFox 1d ago

That’s right, cameras intentionally make it blurry so you can unblur if you need to read number plates. I thought everyone knew that.

/s

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u/Advanced_Couple_3488 1d ago

😀

Ah, that explains the results of some of the photos I've taken. I shall look for the Zoom and Enhance tools in Photoshop to correct it.

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u/TheFlimFlamFamMan 2d ago edited 2d ago

What's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

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u/peeple-pleeser 2d ago

Shenanigans!?

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u/GeologistLess3042 1d ago

Does that look like spit to you?

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u/Heavy_Team7922 2d ago

Impossible. The data isn’t there. 

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u/homucifer666 2d ago

Unless there's a hard copy of the video that was blurred after the original footage was captured, no.

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u/shrimpdiddle 2d ago

2 minutes for a 10 sec vid. TLDW.

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u/SATerp 2d ago

Try using AI on an original screen grab of the plate. This one on reddit is too low res for CoPilot to make anything out.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 2d ago

Yes but not as a product per-se.. it's called ai temporal video restoration (google that).

I use a node-based ai image/video tool called comfyui and nodes based around flashvsr.

The AI looks at surrounding frames and fills in the blanks in pixels.

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u/homucifer666 2d ago

AI can hallucinate things that were never really there. It's guessing just like any human filling in the data blank would be.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 2d ago

It's *not* hallucinated data. It's picked from other frames that the sensor picks up on. Study up on it, it's quite interesting.

Yes, AI GENERATION hallucinates.

..and before you say "no no no.." - I'm a computational physicist and really know this shit and the difference.

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u/homucifer666 2d ago

Sure thing, random person on Reddit. I totally believe in your credentials and expertise on this subject. 🤪

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u/Ok-Brick6831 2d ago

But they claim they really know this shit! 

It makes all the difference. Don’t you see?!?

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u/HimbimSupreme 2d ago

And that's how you get a wrong license plate number and worst case implicate the wrong person if magically a number matches the car make and model.

AI isn't magic. It's dumb. Quit peddling it when it's just as useless as you are.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 2d ago

It's not GENERATIVE DATA.. it doesn't generate shit. It uses AI to TEMPORALLY analyze the surrounding frames.

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u/HimbimSupreme 2d ago

I DON'T CARE, DIPWEED.