A couple of ideas to new features for noise removal in a broader sense ...
Given the apparent high skill level of the NI people and completeness of traditional noise removal in NI, how about the serious challenge of allowing NI to fix the "noise" problems below.
1) Reducing purple fringing AKA color aliasing caused by Bayer interpolation. It can be a major problem with digicams. Occurs in backlit high contrast areas. No easy method for removing this exists today except by desaturating the magenta hue in Photoshop (very crude).
2) Compensate for CA (Chromatic Aberations) RGB shifts at the image edges caused by a lens not focussing RGB at the same spot. Freeware called PanoramaTools can fix it manually (in addition to lens distortions), but requires a PhD to use. NI concept of profiling (lenses) and applying profiles would be very useful.
3) Moire removal. Rainbow color artifacts in high frequency patterns. Inefficient fixes exists today in some software.
4) Recover detail damaged by flares/ghosts and remove the color shifts. Flares/Ghosts occurs when strong (sun-)light hits the lens and causes internal reflections in a lens. Flares looks like round objects on a string accross the image. Ghosts look like blobs of tinted low contrast areas. No fix exists today, images are discarded.
5) Hot/Dead pixel compensation. Already included in plan I see. Good.
Regards,
Kim
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Kim,
Thank you for the ideas. Yes, indeed, the problems you have listed are interesting and challenging both for the users and developers of digital cameras and accompanying software tools. I will not now promise anything like "yes, we will do that", but instead we will take a look at some of these issues and if there is anything we feel we can do well in software to help then we will probably do this in Neat Image or a new program. If not then lets just hope the camera manufacturers will do their work. In any case, thank you for your suggestion!
Kind regards,
Vlad
Thank you for the ideas. Yes, indeed, the problems you have listed are interesting and challenging both for the users and developers of digital cameras and accompanying software tools. I will not now promise anything like "yes, we will do that", but instead we will take a look at some of these issues and if there is anything we feel we can do well in software to help then we will probably do this in Neat Image or a new program. If not then lets just hope the camera manufacturers will do their work. In any case, thank you for your suggestion!
Kind regards,
Vlad
