[opendtv] Re: I've seen a demo from LetItWave
- From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:47:29 -0400
...As was I. As a matter of fact, I have asked one of our vendors to
strike up a dialog...also, their "mosquito" noise reduction was excellent.
Mark Schubin wrote:
> I was very impressed with it at NAB.
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
>
>
> Jeroen Stessen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> This week we've had a private demo from the French company LetItWave:
>> http://www.letitwave.com/ (Thanks to Olivier Houot for the tip !)
>>
>> They use the theory of bandlets for de-interlacing, resolution
>> enhancement,
>> and noise and artefact reduction. We have seen some simulated video, and
>> also a real-time demo from an FPGA on a PCI-card. I was much impressed !
>> Their guy, Alban D'Halluin (director, HDTV marketing) was not at all shy
>> to answer our tricky questions. He seemed honest and knowledgable.
>>
>> They are doing studio-quality conversion from 576@50i (a.k.a. PAL) to
>> 720@50p (a.k.a. Euro-HD), but they are not limited to these standards.
>> (But they do no frame rate conversion, and do not use motion vectors.)
>>
>> 80% of the quality is determined by the de-interlacer, and theirs is yet
>> another variant of the motion-adaptive (not motion-compensated) method.
>> In the simulations it succeeded on some very critical test sequences.
>>
>> Their equipment has been used for HDTV broadcasting from the tennis
>> championship at Roland Garros, because only the center court had real
>> HD cameras. Only the experts could tell the difference between the real
>> 720p and the upconverted video. And this on a mere PCI card.
>>
>> There have been demos at the NAB, and there will be new and improved
>> demos at the coming IBC. Highly recommended.
>>
>> I seemed to understand that Yves Faroudja has an advisory function or
>> something to them. I thought that he wanted no more of interlace ?
>>
>> Oh, and Prin: you guys should worry, they do outperform you a little
>> on de-interlacing, and probably for a fraction of the cost...
>>
>>
>>
>> PS: Philips Applied Technologies Eindhoven wants to hire 1-2 designers for
>>
>> various video signal processing jobs. Let me know if any of you are
>> interested.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> -- Jeroen
>>
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>> | Building: SFJ-5.22 Eindhoven | Deptmt.: Philips Applied Technologies |
>> | Phone: ++31.40.2732739 | Visiting & mail address: Glaslaan 2 |
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