License plate from blurred photo taken with a 'Flutter Shutter Camera'



This example shows a potential application of our camera that flutteres the shutter open and closed in a carefully chosen binary sequence. The binary sequence has a broadband frequency response (similar to binary sequences used in astronomy and audio analysis). The fluttering preserves high spatial frequencies, improving invertibility and hence the corresponding deblurring becomes a well-posed problem.

Matlab Code

Complete Matlab Code and Images


Single Photo of a Speeding Car

Cutout of the photo

What is the make of this car ?
What is the license plate number?
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More about 'Flutter Shutter Camera'

Paper at Siggraph 2006:
Coded Exposure Photography: Motion Deblurring using Fluttered Shutter
Ramesh Raskar, Amit Agrawal, and Jack Tumblin
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006


Also see our SIGGRAPH 2007 paper on coded aperture for out of focus deblurring and Light Field camera using masks