Today’s short centers around MotionDSP, a video enhancement company that the CIA has recently invested an undisclosed amount of money into. MotionDSP enhances video streams by tracking pixel behavior, and has been dismissed by the likes of Google for lack of innovation. I-Q-Tel’s (the venture arm of the CIA) investment adds a layer of creditability to this flagging company.

MotionDSP

From Venturebeat,

The technology improves low-resolution images by tracking pixels as they change frame by frame, making intelligent conclusions about blurred objects or areas. Take, for example, a blurry photo of a person running in a white shirt in the dark. MotionDSP can follow the pixels of white as they move in a video, determine they are part of a coherent object and then reconstruct the shirt’s shape in a higher-resolution video.

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The open question is just how will this technology be used? Of course, there are the obvious video enhancement needs that any large intelligence agency would have but is there a reason that MotionDSP was chosen over the scads of other video companies out there? I’ll continue to track this story as it develops, be sure to comment with your ideas.

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