I read at Xakata.com that american scientists from Wisconsin are working with Adobe’s  technicians on some new software that will end wobbling, unsteady images. At last we could be saying good bye to those annoying, unstable images, we won’t have to bear the motion sickness anymore when we watch a home video from our last trip.  This is very good news for all those among us who love  videocameras, even better, it will give the professionals an excellent new tool. The applications for this new software could really help the cameramen’s work.

The process starts using some off-the-shelf software called Voodoo Camera Tracker that can reconstruct a camera’s path through 3D space from a video sequence. Using that as a reference, the software then tries to distort each frame to create the way things would have looked were the camera to have been on that perfect, smooth path. Rather like a fun house mirror, different regions of each frame are warped by different increments. That slight distortion can be apparent when frames are examined individually, but when run in sequence, the brain thinks it is seeing footage taken from a camera moving on a steady path through space.

We already have other methods to do so, but it seems that they are nothing like this new software. Hopefully, we ‘ll be able to use it pretty soon