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Who's more "sociable," men or women? Common sense says it's women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each other than men. But is that really…
7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable | Cracked.com "[H]ow did we wind up with a more negative view of the world than our parents? Or grandparents? Back then, people didn't live as long and babies died more often. Diseases were more common. In those days, if your buddy moved away the…
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Boo! The optics behind "ghost" imaging « Skulls in the Stars "Ghost imaging is in fact a fascinating and relatively new technique in which a detector can produce an image of an object that it cannot see! The physics behind this effect is somewhat subtle, and resulted in at least one minor…

Regarding the license plate link: I'm certainly nowhere close to be an expert, pretty uneducated actually. But I read a lot of news and I'm pretty sure that you can indeed enhance car plates. For one with a statistical analysis of pixel distribution and second, if you have a video of a static plate I think you can combine many frames to interpolate a higher resolution photo for that different parts (pixels) of the plate are being captured in each frame. I may be totally wrong though...

Check this: http://ikena.motiondsp.com/ikena-technology/

@ XiXiDu

That analysis is for removal of blur form the camera shaking, much like "lucky imaging" in astronomy removes blurring from atmospheric disturbances. Notice that while the slightly blurred image of the digits become sharper, you still can't read the name of the state.